File under: Why I love New York. You learn the most random things when you least expect it.
Last night I was out to dinner celebrating a friend's 30th birthday. Our very French Chef insisted on serving us the bottle of Champagne we had to toast her 30th. He took the bottle and told us he was going to "chop it's head off". He then returned us the bottle with the top portion of the bottle cut off. I was amazed. After googling this I've discovered this is known as "Champagne Sabering". I'm kind of obsessed with learning how to do this now.