My brother Robert Schneider is as calm and competent wielding a cleaver or grater as he is building a cabinet, amusing a group of five-year-olds, or managing a cast of hundreds—which he does in Hollywood. To make this simple salsa, he showed me a grating technique that is so reasonable that I am still embarrassed that I had never managed to come up with it myself. For a rough, fresh sauce of tomatoes or peppers you scrape them on the largest holes of a hand grater, holding
