Utilizing a small kitchen shouldn?t be a big deal

Chef Diane Bukatman today has more than 700 square feet of teaching kitchens in which to spread out. But the kitchen in her first solo apartment was a different beast. The room had a tiny oven, four small burners and just two cabinets above the sink.

“You couldn’t even open the refrigerator and oven at the same time,” Bukatman said. Yet for years, she cooked Thanksgiving dinner for 40 people there. The lessons learned are ones she passes on to students at her Reisterstown cooking school, For the Love of Food.