Great Kitchens: At Home with America's Top Chefs | Cookbook for Home Chefs & Food Lovers | Perfect for Gifts, Cooking Inspiration & Kitchen Decor

This book is a good antidote to all the kitchens one sees in the shelter mags -- the kitchens in this book are filled with old wood, commercial stoves, and practical counters made of steel, wood or tile. And, they're beautiful, some of them, in a honest down-to-earth way. The book is filled with information about the owners of these kitchens -- their work and what they hoped to accomplish when the remodeled their own kitchens at home. You won't find guidelines or prescriptions, but you can pick up a lot of insight about what kinds of materials to use, what looks and works well together. There are several pages of recipes at the back of the book. You can pick up a used copy of this book for less than the price of some magazines, which makes this a really excellent value.