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| Prompt: Kitchen "The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family." Mario Batali What are your feelings about your kitchen? And/or what is your kitchen like? --------- My now-kitchen is a long corridor in a large one-story house. In fact, it is the smallest of kitchens I've worked in. I don't know who'd put a small kitchen in a big house! In fact, the people who owned the house before us were members of a club and they always ate there, in the club. So the kitchen they kept stayed brand new. We liked this house because, at the time when we bought it, it was just my husband and I, after retirement, and I worked in this kitchen alone, which turned out to be quite efficient because I could reach to things just by twisting around without taking too many steps. As to "the kitchen being a castle itself," we had such a kitchen in Long Island, NY, when our sons were growing up. That kitchen was quite large and it had a dining table for eight people in the middle of it. We used that kitchen for just about anything, but mostly I cooked in it while we talked and joked. Even our kids brought their friends to sit at that table in the middle to tell me all about their escapades while I chopped food or stirred the pot. Then, during those wonderful times, my whole family ate the same meal with tiny adjustments for each person, mostly inside that kitchen, unless and if--on occasion--,we wanted to eat in the dining room. Well, no more! At this stage in my life, since I'm mostly the only permanent occupant of this last-house and since my kids' palates took diverse turns lately, gone are the "same-family-meal" days. Luckily, my sons visit me often. In fact, one of them stays a couple of months at a time. I'm so very blessed with that. When my sons are visiting, however, it is a circus. One son is a vegetarian on the edge of being a vegan. The other one is going to some gym and about 90% of his diet is animal based. And I don't have my husband around anymore to pull all of us together. So, we try to manage by taking turns cooking our own food in my now-corridor-like kitchen. Still, it is a good-enough life with a good-enough kitchen, be it corridor-like. As a Dan Fogelbird song says: "Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time, run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind." |
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