Kitchens for Cooks: Planning Your Perfect Kitchen

by Deborah Krasner

Abundant full-color photographs and line drawings highlight a groundbreaking approach for all budgets to kitchen remodeling, offering ideas, advice on equipment, tips on environmental protection storage, and much more. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.

Genres: Cookbooks, Reference

152 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1994

Reviews

[Pam · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is divided in two parts. The first part is almost all text describing and discussing the parts of the kitchen and issues surrounding the choice of appliances and materials. I found this section a bit basic. The second part covers the kitchens used by 14 different serious cooks and their design. The advantage of this book is that all the kitchens are unique and most utilize a mix of old and new equipment and furniture. None of the kitchens covered are what might be described as today's ideal "McMansion" kitchen and that was a relief! On the downside, each kitchen is only shown with photographs and there are no sketches of the layout which was insufficient to understand many of the kitchen designs. If you are looking for a non-standard kitchen, this might be the book for you!

[Amelia · Rating 5 out of 5]

I picked up about a dozen kitchen design books at the library and this is the only one I read cover-to-cover. Although some aspects of it are a bit dated (it was published in 1994), I like the way it goes through the arrangement of the kitchen, and talks about each zone and major appliance separately. Unlike other kitchen design books I saw it doesn't waste too much time talking about color schemes and miscellaneous bits of decor. Instead, it talks about what makes a good working kitchen, which is much more important to me than the color of the backsplash.