After many years without a decent stereo I put together a pretty
decent system from used components, Yamaha integrated amp; technics
tuner, Senn 595 headphones w/used HeadRoom amp, Zenith DVD and Axiom
CT-6 speakers ... all for about $600.00 or so. Most of it set up by
our desk in the living room.

Then I realized I spent a lot of time in the kitchen. Our kitchen is
6" x 14" or so, not bad by NYC standards. And just full of stuff. We
just got a new refrigerator from the landlord because the old one
broke. Many NYC caterers work out of their homes which is as legal as
printing your own currency, but that's the way it is. I work for a few
(also a few legal ones) and I feel guilty because even though my
kitchen's smaller than theirs--only one person can work
comfortably--it's probably better equipped. I feel as thought I ought
to be out there breaking the law right alongside them. But for the
moment I'm content to freelance.

I'm also starting to do more personal chef jobs as well as cook for my
family, so I probably spend more time listening in the kitchen.

So I set up a used Onkyo receiver with a Teac x 5 CD player just
outside the kitchen, and ran speaker wire to the far wall, where just
today I hung BIC America DV62s in what was virtually the only free
space. Total cost to the kitchen was about $200.00 (the speakers were
brand new; I used shelving and brackets already on hand).

In the kitchen I listen mostly to jazz stations here in nyc, 1190;
cds are, mostly, Revolver, Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain, Brubeck &
some 'Trane.

I don't seem to want to too much Rock and Roll, Baroque, eg.,
Goodspeed You Black Emperor!, Brandenburg Concertos, Phillip Glass,
Third Eye Foundation, Jethro Tull or Frank Zappa in the kitchen. I
think I'm probably going to try Hildegard von Bingen's Sequentia
tomorrow when trying out some of the fava bean gnoochi from this
month's Cucina Italia and see how that goes (they go, actually) and I
probably shouldn't admit to liking either Radiohead or Pecorino Romano
from Costco ... but there it is.

Andy Katz

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Being lied to so billionaires can wage war for profits
while indebting taxpayers for generations to come, now
that's just a tad bit bigger than not admitting you like
the big moist-moist lips of chunky trollops on your pecker.

Paghat, the Rat Girl