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Article: Kitchen of the month/Massachusetts: have you ever seen such a remarkably organized and clutter-free kitchen? Leave it to a cookbook writer to know what works best.(Interview)
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- House Beautiful
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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MIMI READ: As a woman who's written six cookbooks and does all her own recipe testing, you needed--and got-a kitchen that's super high-functioning. Yet you also wanted a big, warm, beautiful gathering spot for family and friends. Did you have a guiding vision to help marry these two potentially competing functions?
JUDITH BARRETT: I once saw a picture of an enormous kitchen in a grand old house in--I forget which--England or Newport. I tried to capture that feeling of a place where a lot of work gets done, yet it also has a domestic kind of elegance.
How big is your kitchen and who designed it?
It's 27 1/2 feet long and 16 feet wide. It was a ...