STRANGE BREWS

CHARLES Oakley wants to box out Rachael Ray and Nigella Lawson and launch his own cooking show, "Café Oakley." The former Knick enforcer has already taped three episodes, one featuring John Starks, where his former teammate cooked Oak's fried chicken and macaroni salad, pasta and sausages, and smothered steak and rice. Ingredients for Oak's beef short ribs in cinnamon wine sauce include 18 beers and two or three Cuban cigars, and the directions begin, "Drink 10 beers." (link)