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Hidden Kitchens

03.08.2010 · Posted in Kitchens

One interpretation of the post-culinary kitchen is a kitchen that completely vanishes when you don’t need it.  Not a single appliance or even a utensil to disturb your perfect living space: There are definitely days when a big up-and-over door would be useful to hide the debris left by my culinary endeavors – this one ...

Why’s it called Chicken Chasseur, anyway?

03.07.2010 · Posted in Cooking

I made Chicken Chasseur tonight – came out really well, thanks for asking! Actually, I thought I was going to make Chicken Cacciatore, and like we do these days, I bypassed all my groaning shelves of cookbooks and went straight to the internet.  A quick search brought plenty of recipes, but they were all calling ...

Well hidden

03.06.2010 · Posted in Kitchens

I just came across the Beautiful Kitchens blog, an offshoot of the UK magazine of the same name.  I’m borrowing a couple of pictures here, showing a neat solution to those pesky ovens and other appliances  that clutter up your lovely clean cabinet runs: It’s not every kitchen that needs to hide appliances behind a ...

Is it a problem…

03.05.2010 · Posted in Kitchens, Oh, really?

Is it a problem if your kitchen looks better with the cabinet doors open than it does with them closed? Not that there’s anything horribly wrong with this  – clean lines, glossy white and stainless steel, it has all the hallmarks of a classic modern kitchen: But it is telling that in order to make ...

Wednesday’s Word

03.03.2010 · Posted in Kitchens, Oh, really?

Here we go, another wonderful word for Wednesday. I absolutely love those gloriously worn floor tiles,  and the battered cabinet as island is delicious. But finding an old shop sign doesn’t mean you have to put it in your kitchen: If a completely random word with no apparent relationship to anything in the kitchen weren’t ...

Collapsible kitchen

03.02.2010 · Posted in Kitchens

Here’s and interesting concept for a kitchen – not only portable and compact, but completely collapsible too – the work of Burkhard Schäller, the Magdelena Gravity kitchen exhibited at the Talents section at Ambiente 2010 Consumer Goods Fair in Frankfurt (via) I guess you are in serious trouble here if your utensils happen to be a ...