The Kitchen: A Never-Ending Love Story
I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the old adage ‘the kitchen is the heart of the home’. While I believe this still holds true, I think some of its nuances have perhaps been lost today. Food really is the way to everyone’s hearts, not least because it quite literally keeps it beating, but because there’s something about the ritual of cooking and eating that engenders safety, comfort, and community. Its importance is synonymous across cultures, it’s the foundations of civilizations, a political instrument, a means for unity, a way of creating peace, a tool in courtship, and one of the biggest love languages of all. The list is endless. Needless to say, the landscape in which this is all made possible, The Kitchen, has profound importance in our lives, whatever that may look like. In the most modest of interpretations, this can be merely a source of heat on which food is cooked. For many, it’s a status symbol signalling abundance and skill; why else do we all want a kitchen isl...
