Who cooks here? Jamie, a photographer and blogger, and her boyfriend, web designer Kevin Burg
Location: New York, NY
Owned or rented? Rented
Kitchen size: 56 square feet
What challenge have you overcome in your kitchen? Coming from Texas I thought, "How in the world am I going to survive with only a mini-fridge and a stove one friend called the smallest they have ever seen?" I mean, I could crawl into my parent's freezer back home it is so big! Then this wonderful thing happened — I was forced to start buying my food fresh, daily and only what I would eat. By taking away what I thought I needed I actually learned what food and cooking was all about and from this I began my great love affair with food.
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What's the story of your kitchen?
Welcome to New York! This 56 square foot kitchen maybe small but it is the heartbeat of our Manhattan apartment! Sure there is not a lot of space (two people in the kitchen is a fun game of bumper cars, no dishwasher meaning I have to put up dishes before I can do anything, and I store pots in the stove I move to the living room when baking) but I cook dinner at home almost every evening and by no means do I let the amount of space detour me from creating, photographing, and blogging about food!
What is your favorite meal to cook here?
I love to make fresh homemade pasta with a simple cherry tomato and capers sauce. I spent the day with an Italian in Brooklyn where he taught me this classic recipe and now I recreate it at home all the time. You can see the it all at my Tumblr blog, From Me to You.
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Our reading list
Good Food to Share 
The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces 
Apartment Therapy Presents 
The Eight-Step Home Cure 
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Comments (6)
I love this little kitchen! It's cute but practical...the built in chopping block is great and the counters are clean but not bare - bare counters (especially in a small kitchen) mean no one's cooking!
Oh wow! I just found Jamie's blog a few days ago (seriously) via a random link on twitter and have been in awe over her photography and blog since.
So great to see the face behind the blog (and the kitchen she cooks in!)
you guys should have given her a plug for her blog - drop the link in the post and allow people to see her wonderful recipes created in such a fab little kitchen. Go on guys post her blog address
As someone in the West Village with an even smaller kitchen (take away that return on your counter, the dishwasher, the toaster, the cutting block and the over the cabinet storage and you'll get the picture). Yet we cook more then just about anyone I know in the suburbs and for the same reasons you spoke of - we buy from the market virtually daily (I'm surprised Chelsea Market isn't charging me rent at this point) and we cook effortlessly every day, and non stop on the weekends.
More people can learn a good lesson from a small is beautiful kitchen. I visit friends in the suburbs and yeah, they have massive space but it is 95% frozen processed foods and they think fresh is what happens after you add water and mix.
Would love to know that blog link as well -
another vote for the blog link. I'd love to learn the meals that can be prepared in a non-Texas sized kitchen, since that's where I just moved from.
Cute kitchen! I have just moved into a flat with the same size kitchen, and I can relate to this... bye-bye dishwasher, 3-wall counter space and tall fridge-freezer....hello small fridge and half-counter. No bother - this week I've done Moroccan chicken couscous, a hearty pasta sauce for 4 people and sea bass with roasted potatoes & veg. We buy only what we need - and actually our cupboards aren't full yet. Wish we had a bigger fridge/freezer but we cope! It can be done.