News — IdeasToSteal

When it comes to efficient kitchen design, food magazines would have us believe that professional kitchens are the place to look for ideas. But the restaurant kitchen can be too antiseptic, too assembly-line for at-home cooks. Consider, instead, the chef’s home kitchen. Time and again we’ve seen that, at home, chefs have co-opted ideas from restaurant kitchens to suit their own lifestyle, with clever, at-a-glance ways of storing spices and two-are-better-than-one faucets. So has cookbook author, writer, and cooking show host Amy Thielen. Her kitchen—a newly built pine-paneled kitchen in Two Inlets, Minnesota—may seem rustic, just off of an original one-room cabin...