Synopses & Reviews
If the kitchen is your favorite room, if cooking is your favorite pastime, or if eating well is your most unregrettable vice, let
Great Kitchens take you to paradise. From the home kitchen of Chez Panisse's Alice Waters to The Inn at Little Washington's Patrick O'Connell, each chef's kitchen is a unique jewel of culinary understanding and design. The 26 chefs in this book share the secrets that make a kitchen a great place to cook, to relax, and to enjoy the best of food and company.
The 300 color photographs in Great Kitchens map out an intimate tour of the home kitchens of America's top restaurant chefs. Inside you'll see a remarkable range of styles, each expressed in the cabinets, fixtures, appliances, counters, storage, and finishes of these mouth-watering kitchens. Look inside, meet the chefs, hear their stories, and learn the secrets of first-rate kitchen design and be sure to check out the favorite home recipes from each of these 26 world-class chefs in the back of the book.
Review
"This is a warm and wonderful opportunity to move behind all the public relations and commercial glitz and explore the places where some truly real people do their very personal, creative cooking. A truly wonderful idea that makes celebrity a celebration." Graham Kerr, International Culinary Consultant
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"Great Kitchens offers an inside look into the home kitchens of some of the most successful chefs in America. Whether at work or at home, today's great chefs know that the kitchen is a nurturing place one that should be as inspiring and inviting as it is efficiently designed." Ferdinand E. Metz, President, The Culinary Institute of America
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"Great Kitchens is a must for anyone setting out to redo a kitchen or even for those who just want to sit back and gawk enviously. With beautiful photography, floor plans, and explanations, it shows you the best possible kitchens and introduces you to the chefs who own them." James Peterson, author of Essentials of Cooking and Sauces: Classical and Contemporary Sauce Making
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"Virtually all these kitchens are designed to double as classroom spaces, enough room for students to gather and learn from the master. Most unexpected are the kitchens designed to cook primarily Chinese foods, their built-in woks with giant burners the only way to reproduce restaurant quality in the home." Booklist
Synopsis
Twenty-six of America's top chefs open their home kitchens to provide an expert look at the best in kitchen design. A knowledge of fine food and a well-defined cooking style informs each chef's workplace and more than 300 color photos reveal a wide variety of options and solutions for a home kitchen.
Synopsis
Professional chefs design their home kitchens for efficiency, comfort, and style. What makes a pro's kitchen work so well? A knowledge of cooking and a signature style. This book features hundreds of design ideas offering readers a glimpse inside the home kitchens of some of America's most renowned chefs. It's a visual feast and a wellspring of design inspiration.
-- Features 26 dream kitchens and advice on creating your own.
-- Includes more than 300 photographs, floor plans, lists of equipment, and recipes.
About the Author
Whitaker is president of Berkeley Research Group, an on-line research firm based in the San Francisco Bay area.
Mahoney is a principal with Mahoney Architects, an award-winning residential and commercial design firm specializing in major projects for unique private residences.
Jordan is senior contributing editor for Professional Remodeler. She is a former vice president for Hanley-Wood, Inc., and was editor-in-chief of Remodeling, a magazine she launched for Hanley-Wood in 1985.