The Poetry of the Kitchen

The Most Important Room in the House

 

Kitchens are tolerant. They are conciliatory, and their acceptance of life's messiness forges bonds between friends and neighbors, unites families that have stopped speaking, patches strained marriages. Accustomed to sticky spills, broken dishes, sloshing water and acrid smelling cleaners, kitchens shrug their shoulders at the vagaries of human behavior. Kitchens know all, see all, accept all. Kitchens are home. And when they are perfumed with food they are the best places in the world for thinking or for letting secret tears slide into a sauce, for talking to oneself, for laughing out loud even when alone.

Decorate your kitchen with a decorator's eye.  Stretch the budget so you can buy the finest appliances, cook on the best stove you can afford, a Viking o,r, if you have the wherewithal, a La Cornue of France, the dream of every professional chef, and a stove guaranteed to turn your home into a French Chateau.  Keep that kitchen as beautiful as you can, for this is the room that promises to keep you together with your family and give you the center of nourishment, both for body and soul.

The kitchen is a poem written by the cook for the assembled loved ones who eat the cook's food.  Make it the best food you can, though time may be limited. You are the poet writing the poetry of the kitchen.

 

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