Although all my recipes are cooked in my kitchen and therefore come from it, the kitchen on the cover of Vegetarian Suppers from Deborah Madison’s Kitchen is not, alas, mine. It’s far bigger for one, and has all sorts of things that mine doesn’t, such as a sunny window over the sink.

If you’re curious about the true DM kitchen, it is featured in this month’s (May) issue of Saveur. You’ll see that it’s pretty tiny, and pretty colorful. I really like my little kitchen, but when I was done with the photographs and the interview, I began to think that a big kitchen would be okay, too. Not that one is likely to emerge. I think I’ll be cooking these 108 odd square feet for a quite a while yet.