Synopses & Reviews
If your cluttered small kitchen makes you dread cooking even the simplest meal, its time for you to reclaim that spaceand your sanity!with this practical and witty guide. Here you will learn how to:
*Purge your kitchen of unnecessary, space-hogging STUFF
* Maximize counter space
*Organize and streamline your kitchen for peak efficiency and easy cleanup
*Locate the best cooking equipment (and retailers) for small kitchens
*Re-think shopping, cooking, and storing food to suit your small-kitchen lifestyle
*Use ingenious creative shortcuts for small-space entertaining
Best of all, each of the books 100 recipes is designed for minimal space, time, and pots and pans. With no more than two burners and a toaster oven you can make easy breakfasts, fast soups, comfort food like Moms Sunday Pot Roast or Mole-Style Chili, big batch recipes for no-fuss entertaining, and even great desserts like Orange Marmalade Bread Pudding or Extreme (super-fast, super-chocolatey) Brownies.
Synopsis
College students and recent grads, downsizing empty-nesters and owners of boats and RVs all have one thing in common: their kitchens are too small and often unusable. At last, here is a guide to turning that supersmall kitchenette into a full-service culinary oasis.
Author Justin Spring, who has written for "The "New York Times Home section and "Martha Stewart Living, has transformed his own itty-bitty kitchen into a model of practical style." With his irreverent handbook, savvy cooks will learn to purge their kitchens of unnecessary items and maximize limited shelf and countertop space. They will also explore the most cook-friendly ways of setting up a kitchen; learn sneaky strategies for seemingly effortless entertaining; and explore the many challenges (and triumphs) of small-kitchen cleanup time. Along with suggestions for the best small-kitchen cooking equipment (and shopping guides for locating it), Spring--who learned many of his small-kitchen strategies aboard a family sailboat--looks at unconventional but highly effective ways of shopping, cooking and storing food in limited spaces. Forty classic recipes that require minimal preparation and cleanup--like Mom's Sunday Pot Roast, Toaster Oven "Fried" Chicken, and Extreme Brownies--will give you an entirely new way of looking at (and cooking in) your small kitchen.
Thirty charming illustrations add to the book's appeal as an all-purpose gift for housewarmings, graduations, weddings, and more.
About the Author
Justin Spring, pictured here in his 45-square-foot New York City kitchen, is a writer who learned many of his small-kitchen strategies aboard a family sailboat.