Tiny Kitchen, Gourmet Cooking
IN SEPTEMBER 2018, I spent a week in Italy cooking for a yoga retreat. We stayed on an old Tuscan vineyard in cottages that were originally built in the 1500s for farmhands and their families, and the kitchens were tiny. I was immediately overwhelmed at the thought of all the women who, for hundreds of years, had prepared meals in that same space.
The experience was humbling in the same way I feel humbled by travel itself. It connected me to the vastness of life on this planet beyond my own small existence.
The kitchen itself was about the size of a dining room table. It had a 2-burner stove and a finicky oven similar in size to one you might find in an RV. It wasn’t the first tiny kitchen I’d cooked in, but it solidified a truth that would come in handy just a
