Kitchens
Illustration by Sinae Park
Rooted in the memories and personal stories embedded in people's kitchens, Kitchens combines the history of design and food to understand the current context of how and where we cook.
Listen to the Kitchens audio documentary series:
Full transcripts of each episode are available in the blog posts below.
Order the Kitchens print zine.
“Listen, and you won’t look at your kitchen the same way again.”
Does it matter what fuels our fire in the kitchen? Javon Bennett explains how his family adapted their cooking when they moved from Jamaica to England, and Carwyn Graves explores Welsh kitchen traditions.
Jennie Thomas reflects on growing up in a post war prefab in Hackney, and Alice Wilson, whose academic work examines tiny houses, explains how some people are bucking the trend for big houses and big fridges.
Why are so many of our kitchens so unsociable? Lucy meets Johnny Grey, a kitchen designer who’s been fighting for decades to make kitchens a place for leisure not work, and Katie Pennick, a disability campaigner whose work has changed the face of London transport – but who still can’t cook in her own kitchen.
Reflecting on the ingrained gender roles and unequal history physically built into domestic kitchens, Lucy Dearlove speaks to Michael Etheridge and Gemma Croffie about their relationships with domesticity.
Lucy Dearlove explores the origins of the fitted kitchen with Professor Deborah Sugg Ryan, and Ruby Tandoh considers aspiration in cookbook and recipe writing.
Listen to the trailer for Kitchens: a brand new podcast series by Lecker about the most important room in the home.
