FR Interview

“It’s like I am a new bornbaby and have never worked in a kitchen I my entire life,” says David Kinch, Negroni in hand, as we share a booth in the ancient backroom at Keen’s Steakhouse in Midtown Manhattan. We’re talking about the food of Japan, a topic that excites the eccentric chef-owner of Manresa in Los Gatos, California. We get to talking about New York City in the '80s...

If you didn’t fall asleep in the middle of Sunday’s sluggish Mad Men premiere (Don, NO!), you might have caught a commercial for Knife Fight, a new cooking competition show created by Ilan Hall, who is best known for wining Season 2 of Top Chef. This is worth mentioning because the show looks nothing like a cable cooking show. A very good thing, as we find out.

Adam Melonas admits that the most difficult part of his job was to fix something that many did not consider was broken. Children don’t think it’s broken. Adults don’t think it’s broken. And, most importantly, a multi-billion dollar food industry enriching themselves with a chemical rainbow of products loaded with hydrogenated oil and high-fructose corn syrup don't think it’s broken.