I miss my kitchen. Sure, I brought the essentials with me, but I'm missing that indistinct home quality it has. I think it's the light. On his blog, Michael Ruhlman recently wrote about what he considers to be essential in the kitchen, and it's a good list. Did you see it? It would be really helpful for anyone setting up a home or trying to decide what to shove in the suitcase and bring with them to... oh, say, Shreveport. Unfortunately this article came too late for me, but it mostly jives with what I decided to take.
One huge item that I did wind up cramming in the suitcase that, not surprisingly, didn't make Ruhlman's list is really more a piece of furniture than an essential kitchen tool - the high chair. That's right. The flippin' high chair fit in my flippin' suitcase. Yes, it's a pretty big suitcase, but standard big, not steamer trunk big, so this is obviously one radical high chair.
It came from Ikea. It cost like 20 bucks. It has minimal nooks and crannies where gunk can lurk, and it's not bad to look at. I love it.
Now, is it wrong that reading Ruhlman's article kind of makes me pine a little bit for a pie maker? Just a little bit, and I don't need a fish spatula, so there's that. And, do you see the light in this kitchen? Doesn't
it make you sad?
