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Kitchens à la Carte

When I read that some people spend from $10,000 to $35,000 on their kitchens, I wonder what on earth anyone can put into a kitchen that costs that much money. I know there is a lot of precious new equipment, such as electronic ovens at around $1,000, warming drawers (the steam table brought up to date) that will keep a meal at a controlled temperature for hours (for about $400), glass chillers, instant water-heaters, automatic ice-making machines (another $400), built-in ovens, eye-level broilers, tabletop burners, giant refrigerators (available with pop art fronts), freezers, garbage disposers, and dozens of small appliances—but even all of these would not nearly add up to that kind of dough. So I went among the cognoscenti, the high- class real estate people, the editors of publications devoted to handsome living, interior designers, fancy kitchen object shops; and I took a look at some of the kitchens in that rarefied financial atmosphere. It all made me feel like a peasant (barefoot, tugging at forelock) confronted with Versailles, and my, what vistas into the modus operandi of the other half as well.

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Kitchens à la Carte

When I read that some people spend from $10,000 to $35,000 on their kitchens, I wonder what on earth anyone can put into a kitchen that costs that much money. I know there is a lot of precious new equipment, such as electronic ovens at around $1,000, warming drawers (the steam table brought up to date) that will keep a meal at a controlled temperature for hours (for about $400), glass chillers, instant water-heaters, automatic ice-making machines (another $400), built-in ovens, eye-level broilers, tabletop burners, giant refrigerators (available with pop art fronts), freezers, garbage disposers, and dozens of small appliances—but even all of these would not nearly add up to that kind of dough. So I went among the cognoscenti, the high- class real estate people, the editors of publications devoted to handsome living, interior designers, fancy kitchen object shops; and I took a look at some of the kitchens in that rarefied financial atmosphere. It all made me feel like a peasant (barefoot, tugging at forelock) confronted with Versailles, and my, what vistas into the modus operandi of the other half as well.