Front Burner: A Knife Made for You

Tomer Botner, an industrial designer, started making Florentine kitchen knives in his apartment in Tel Aviv, in the Florentin neighborhood. He kept the name of the company after relocating to Barcelona with his wife, Noam Blumenthal, and his stunning knives are now available online. Each knife he sells is custom-made from a choice of blades…

Front Burner: The Forager Steeps a Tea

The bold capital letters on the tea label say “weed,” but it’s not the smokable kind. Tama Matsuoka Wong — the forager par excellence, who works with Restaurant Daniel and has written a book about foraging — has introduced bottled sumac tea, her first product in the I Am a Weed line from Tama’s Wild…

Front Burner: The Staff Sings at the Four Seasons

The plush blue lounge upstairs at the Four Seasons restaurant has started holding cabaret performances on occasional Friday evenings. What is uncommon about the programs is that many of the performers are current or former kitchen and dining room employees of the restaurant. In April, Rafa Campos Salles, a former reservationist, performed Poulenc and a…