You found some very modern Indian kitchens! Would be nice to show a "traditional" one, too!

I was about to say - i went to India this past summer (Surat, Gujarat) - those aren't _real_ Indian kitchens. The traditional ones are beautiful and incredibly smart.

Indians who use Western-style appliances are "real" Indians too! It's not all women in saris sweating around tandoors. Talk about exoticizing the other. Traditional outdoor kitchens and urban lifestyles don't necessarily mix, and many, many Indians don't live in villages. It's 2010.

Yeah, going along with angelala: I live in Spain. A lot of the kitchens and bathrooms are pretty modern looking (except in places that are deliberate with the "traditional" look). I asked my bf about getting some Spanish tiles for the bathroom once, and I suppose he looked at me the way I would look at him if he wanted to asianify the bathroom with Buddhas and red and black lacquer w/mother-of-pearl accents everywhere... ;)

The husband was born in India, when he took a gander at this post, he laughed a bit. He said, "looks like those kitchens you see on Ztv soap operas."

Angela - It is 2010, but more than enough parts of the world have a lot of ways to go.

Thanks for keeping it real.

Wow, I really don't know what to say. A traditional kitchen doesn't mean an outdoor kitchen with a tandoor in India. Traditional kitchens aren't only used in villages. There are urban traditional Indian kitchens too.

not every family goes for such modular looking kitchens...money matters at times...but most kitchens are a basic concrete platform with granite or marble top and a few shelves to accommodate grocery.