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The relationship between cooking, creativity and the kitchen environment is one of my big interests, not surprisingly. I love...

Excerpts from Turning Grey into Gold conference at Newcastle University, 28th November When growing old, your kitchen is key for staying...

Terence Conran and I have met in odd places down the decades, from my aunt’s house and shop to (a now closed) barber’s at the BBC site at...

So, it seems that the kitchen’s relatively newly-found role as social hub of the house might be under challenge. A recent survey by...

I was recently lucky enough to receive a new cookery book by Lindsay Bareham structured around the pots and pans in her kitchen, The...

Food politics is suddenly at the top of many agendas, in discussions about obesity, food provenance, ever-increasing worries over...

Historically, not a great many people wanted to emulate vegetarians. They were seen as cranky dinner party pests, also sentimental,...

Andrew Solomon’s new book Far From the Tree: Children and the Search for Identity is book of the week on BBC Radio 4 and all over the...

‘Enchantment’ is a slightly quaint word to use in connection with kitchen design. When recently judging the Kitchen Bedroom and Bathroom ...

Messy kitchens, happy living? I think so. The first time I go into a house the sight of the kitchen reveals much about the owner’s...

Nancy Hiller, distinguished USA cabinet maker and author, writes about Johnny in the Tailgate column in the October edition of Fine...

Defending my use of curves in kitchen design has become a habit over the years. Many consider them to be an expensive luxury, hard to...

I developed the Kitchen Creative Index as a checklist for the kitchen industry to offer more creativity to customers, as I believe they...

It’s not mobile internet but a home that can bring families together, three generations in one property. The USA recorded 41 million such...

Kitchen islands are a relatively recent invention. They first appeared in 1950s USA as a way of filling up newly expanded kitchen spaces....