A lot of people are forced to cook in very small kitchens in their apartment or small house. Some of the cooking shows have chefs cooking in spacious kitchens but that's not the case for lots of people trying to duplicate the recipes. The New York Times has a new show called Tiny Kitchen. You can read about it here. Jill Santopietro is a cook and food tester
for the Times and she always tested recipes in her tiny home kitchen.
Believe it or not, the Times doesn't have a test kitchen. Instead, recipes are developed and tested in each writer's home. For me, this means my 11.5-square-foot kitchen. I have no dishwasher, no garbage disposal and just two feet of counter space. My kitchen has crept into the living room, where metro shelving holds plates, pots and appliances. (I use a stepladder daily to pull things down.) Since there is never enough space, I have to purge my kitchen regularly. As a result, the barbers on the first floor of my building love to see me, especially when I cook off my frozen cookie dough. This is the reality of cooking in New York City.
Here's one of Jill Santopietro's videos. She makes a calvados cocktail in her 11-square-foot kitchen.
