Christine Dabney wrote:
>
> Just saw this article referenced in one of the countless food blogs I
> read. �I thought it was interesting.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/we...n.html?partner...
>
> I think the smallest kitchen where I have cooked, was my last travel
> assignment. It was also poorly laid out, but I managed to do some good
> cooking there. �
>
> The kitchen at the cottage I rented in Idyllwild wasn't much bigger,
> but again, I was able to do some good cooking. �I have some pictures
> of that kitchen on my laptop..maybe I can find them and post them.
>
> I know several rfc'ers have smallish kitchens...but they seem to be
> able to produce good things from their kitchens. �
>
> How about the rest of you and what do you think?
Since when does size matter?
My present kitchen is "U" shaped, the working portion approximately 8'
X 9', located at one corner of my dining area, I suppose what's now
known as a "great room", although my dining area is not by any
stretch a great space. I consider my kitchen more on the small side,
but more than adequate. I've lived with much smaller and much larger
kitchens. My smallest kitchen is contained in two shoeboxes that fit
in a small duffel bag and a small ice chest, it's my old travel/
camping kitchen (always at the ready), I've used it to cook many a
gourmet meal, whether in a small motel room, at a park bench, or in
the middle of a huge wilderness forest. I think too many people
complain that their kitchen is too small because they use their
kitchen primarily for collecting a lot of totally useless junk,
usually "thingies' that don't belong in a kitchen, like only one set
of everyday dishes belong in a kitchen, all special company pieces
belong elsewhere, under your bed if you're short on space. And
cookbooks do not belong in a kitchen, I have about a hundred, all
neatly arranged in a glass door enclosed library bookcase in my
office. Were I to move all my cookbooks into my kitchen it would no
longer be a kitchen, it would then become a reference library. It's
not wise to keep books in a kitchen anyway.