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Hot Knives Take Over Sunday Flea Market For an Eastside, Veggie-Centric Yard Sale
Evan and Alex, the Hot Knives
The Space 15 Twenty weekly flea market is getting a unique spin this Sunday, thanks to the cooking duo Hot Knives and a celebration of their cookbook "Salad Daze." Typically geared toward fashion, design and local vintage clothiers, vegetarian chefs Evan George and Alex Brown, aka the Hot Knives, are bringing together a tasty hodgepodge of their Eastsider pals to sell wares and entertain.Here's what on tap, the Hot Knives tell us:
- YACHT, the band, selling records and merch like their new Shangria-LA T-Shirt
- Plant Food For People, a Highland Park food collective infamous for jackfruit tacos and vegan tamales
- From the Robins Nest, home-crafted jams, jellies and awesome baguette sandwiches
- Sasso, a handmade, small batch hot sauce that you need in your pantry
- Complicated Dance Steps, a local freak-beat tape label will peddle their wares and mix records
- A fall menu of herbal and spice-infused sodas poured by Eden's Herbals
- Echo Park Books, publisher of the "Art Time Punks" an archive of the infamous Part Time Punks club posters
- Elf Cafe, making available for the first time ever to-go jars of its signature harissa
- Clara's Cakes, teen baking blogger phenom selling vegan treats
- Marriage Records, the Portland-based record label represent the Northwest with a smattering of recent indie releases
- Golden Wings and Rosie's Vintage will be showcasing groovy threads for you Lady Knives
- Hot Knives will be DJing with Claire L. Evans of YACHT and demo-ing how to make Thanksgiving Pop-Tarts, and they'll be giving out free Thanksgiving Trifecta Pop-Tarts to anyone who brings a book or buys a book for them to sign.
Wait--a Thanksgiving Pop-Tart? The Hot Knives explain it on their site, but this video may help:
Thanksgiving Pop Tart from Mike Merrill on Vimeo.
Hot Knives Take Over Space 15 Twenty Flea Market
Sunday, November 13, 2011 Noon-4 p.m.
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