Kitchen confidential or Bye, bye Nigella, cooking feast is over

It’s time to put the dishes away. And the food, as well. Who wants to see them after all? You’ve just renovated the kitchen and it’s all sleek and shiny, so stainless steel and Space Age. It’s Bulthaup brand. No more messy, big and homey  “English  country style” kitchens full of fresh vegetables and fruits.Who is going to cut, clean and cook all that? Who has the time? And who cares? That concept belongs to that oldish lady played by Diane Keaton in “Something’s Gotta Give.”

In modern kitchens of this time and age, everything is empty, and very discrete. You can’t see the stove, you can’t see the dishwashers, you can’t see the fridge. They are all neatly covered with cabinets. Nothing can even remind you of cooking. There is no food. Oh, you still have your Sub-Zero fridge but inside of it you should have just water, a few vitamin drinks and if you really have to: a bottle of milk. Soy milk of course.

Your kitchen serves to display the foods -- foods that have been prepared in some other place. You don’t want your guests to smell all the cooking, or see you chopping, stirring, cutting…You want them to relax.

Leave the unclassy barbecues to unclassy suburbs, to the poor people, who still don’t understand that ”what feeds you , kills you,” so the less you eat, the longer you live.

You are a modern hostess. Thin and sleek. A little bit distant, on the verge of cold, just like your kitchen…Your style is minimalist, with no decorations, very clean cut, smart, sharp, on the verge of cold - just like your kitchen.

 You serve a little food, but in a distinguished way. Nothing is too tasty, but it looks superb.

   Towards your guests, you are still quite kind, but not too excited... You smile, but not laugh, and you’re almost two-dimensional while floating through the halogen lights of your sleek apartment. You’re a little bit slow, a little bit tired, a little bit bored. A little bit starved. Not only for food but for something new. Something to excite you besides your new kitchen. That’s already old. Besides your friends who are so known. Besides your own self, so thin and cold.