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The Post-Culinary Kitchen
If you take away the dominance of food, what comes next? If cooking was the purpose of the 19th and early 20th century kitchen, what activities will take us into this century’s kitchen space? As back...
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3G HOME OF THE FUTURE
It’s not mobile internet but a home that can bring families together, three generations in one property. The USA recorded 41 million such families in 2008, representing 16% of households, a rapidly...
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MESS PLEASE. WHILE I’M TALKING KITCHENS, OTHERS PHILOSOPHISE IT..
Messy kitchens, happy living? I think so. The first time I go into a house the sight of the kitchen reveals much about the owner’s world view. Exaggerated tidiness can mean little cooking, too much...
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A writer’s kitchen table
Andrew Solomon’s new book Far From the Tree: Children and the Search for Identity is book of the week on BBC Radio 4 and all over the review pages, here and in the USA at the moment – excitingly for me...
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Elizabeth David: the cook, the runaway, the shopkeeper and rebel
I think we all know she was a cook – or it’s very easy to find this out. I would like to remember some other things about my aunt. She could not bear being told what to do. I’m not sure what led to...
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Kitchens are our best defence
Food politics is suddenly at the top of many agendas, in discussions about obesity, food provenance, ever-increasing worries over environmental degradation caused by agribusiness and forecasts of...
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YOUR NEXT KITCHENS – COME TO MY TALK
I often mull over what makes a kitchen a happy place to be. When visiting friends’ or potential clients’ houses I mentally undress the space, same when I watch a movie or look through a magazine. I’m...
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Back to the ’50s. Minimalism RIP.
In the last few days I have been lucky enough to visit Milan 2014, two design shows that set the year’s interiors agenda: Salone del Mobile and Eurocucina. There really isn’t anything like these...
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Stand up for your health
It seems that one of the reasons we in the West live longer but with the extra years blighted by ill-health is that we spend way too much time on our backsides. A programme on Radio 4...
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PLANNING AHEAD
Despite many futurologists over the years making twits of themselves I still believe in projecting oneself into the future and imagining how it will look and feel. It can also make good sense. Kitchens...
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