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With fire comes civilisation, via the kitchen
It appears Darwin can shed light, or rather add fuel to the fire, to the debate about why kitchens are important, how they have helped...
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Aug 10, 20103 min read
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Michael Pollan’s Food Rules liberate kitchen design
“Eating in our time has gotten complicated, needlessly so.” The opening lines of Michael Pollan’s new book, Food Rules, remind us how to...
johnnygreystudios
Jun 8, 20102 min read
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The Unfitted Revival: a move to simpler, more democratic kitchens
A modern update on the unfitted kitchen
johnnygreystudios
May 29, 20102 min read
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William Wordsworth, the accidental kitchen wordsmith
William Wordworth’s poetry set the 19th century alight and changed how we view our relationship with nature. He believed that sensitivity...
johnnygreystudios
May 21, 20102 min read
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A Mid-Century Modern Alice
Johnny recently wrote about about Alice in Wonderland’s imaginary kitchen and asked for ideas inspired by this theme.
johnnygreystudios
Apr 25, 20102 min read
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Function follows food
“Cooking is an art. By art I mean a lot of creativity and some necessary chaos. Food is a natural product and whatever is natural comes...
johnnygreystudios
Mar 12, 20102 min read
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Alice in Wonderland’s imaginary kitchen
Imaginary kitchen - what kind of kitchen Lewis Carroll’s and his illustrator would have made for Alice...
johnnygreystudios
Mar 5, 20103 min read
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Why do most kitchens look the same? Thoughts for the industry Part II*
I think the kitchen industry – and kitchen designers – have to own up. The kitchens most people end up with look depressingly similar....
johnnygreystudios
Feb 10, 20102 min read
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A new approach to luxury in the kitchen
Various adjectives can be used to describe our kitchens: luxury, high-end, custom, bespoke, top-of-the-line, premium...
johnnygreystudios
Dec 16, 20092 min read
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Thanksgiving every night
In recent years, I’ve noticed that the media seems to focus on how to survive this event, rather than celebrate it. What should be an...
johnnygreystudios
Nov 26, 20092 min read
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Cooking with kids, Australian style
Australia is having a world first with a programme for creating kitchens – with veggie gardens – for 191 primary schools with the goal of...
johnnygreystudios
Sep 15, 20091 min read
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A kitchen renaissance to the East
During a recent trip to Shanghai, walking through an open site of a high rise development, I was both confronted and confounded by a...
johnnygreystudios
Aug 31, 20092 min read
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Review: The Hoosier Cabinet in kitchen history
This title by Nancy Hiller is must read for anyone interested in American kitchens.
johnnygreystudios
Jul 22, 20092 min read
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Wonderfully worn.
No, I’m not thinking of old clothes, or those Van Gogh boots that have become such old friends they can’t be thrown out. Instead, I was...
johnnygreystudios
Jul 6, 20092 min read
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A taste of cooking with kids
We’ve recently been in touch with chef Dorette Snover, founder and owner of C’est Si Bon cooking school based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
johnnygreystudios
May 5, 20092 min read
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