Small kitchen cooking (from the NY Times)
This article on nytimes.com, “So Your Kitchen is Tiny. So What?,” speaks to me and probably you if you read this blog regularly. To summarize, it speaks not only of small kitchens, but also of the taste for cooking.
Basically, according to the author, New York Times columnist Mark Bittman, and the accomplished chefs he interviews, you don’t need a fancy kitchen to make a fancy meal; you just need the desire to cook. My favorite quote from the article: “If you have a feeling for taste, if you can imagine what you want, maybe the first time it doesn’t work, but the next time you do it better, and that’s how you learn,” Marcella Hazen.
Check it out. If you have a small kitchen, like me, it’ll make you feel better. And if you’re a new cook trying a recipe, remember Marcella’s quote. Happy cooking!
This post was written by:
Julia Boyle - who has written
122 posts on Echronicles.
I am Julia, an editor for The Erickson Tribune with a passion for food, photographs, and turning large recipes into single servings.
People who live or at least eat alone tend to cook less because most recipes serve four to eight people, not one. And most ingredients are scaled for those recipes, so waste seems inevitable. This blog is my way of bringing easy, delicious, healthy single serving dishes to those who cook for themselves. You don’t have to be a chef; here you’ll find tips and recipes that make cooking for one enjoyable and satisfying.
Please send me your requests for recipe makeovers to be featured on my blog. You can post them or send them to julia.boyle@erickson.com
Bon appetit!
