Author & Chef Mark Bittman’s Tiny Kitchen

A couple of months ago, my newest cookbook given to me at Christmas, How to Cook Everything Vegetarian by Mark Bittman, really struck me.  Let me just show you why. After a little google action, I found this:

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It’s Mark Bittman in his kitchen… his 42 square foot kitchen!

This amazing cook and New York Times columnist creates and tests most of his recipes right there in that little space, and he believes that a true cook can work in any kitchen.  Sure he admits that sometimes he has to remove pots and pans from storage so he can cook.  Suddenly my love for small kitchens is boiling over.

So for all of you out there with tiny kitchens, I love this paragraph he wrote on December 13, 2008:

When it comes to kitchens, size and equipment don’t count nearly as much as devotion, passion, common sense and, of course, experience. To pretend otherwise — to spend tens of thousands of dollars or more on a kitchen before learning how to cook, as is sadly common — is to fall into the same kind of silly consumerism that leads people to believe that an expensive gym membership will get them into shape or the right bed will improve their sex life. As runners run and writers write, cooks cook, under pretty much any circumstance.

I feel like cooking something fabulous.  Maybe we’ll try Mark’s minty tahini sauce tonight (as long as I don’t burn it).

If you wanna grab any of his cookbooks like How to Cook Everything or How to Cook Everything Vegetarian, they’re over at Amazon.  I think mine is fast becoming my favorite cookbook, and it isn’t just because of his fabulously small kitchen.

(Image and data from NYTimes)