When I was younger

my family lived in a house with an open kitchen. The breakfast room (where we ate all of our meals, not just breakfast) was separated from the kitchen by a counter. This was the perfect set up for serving food, for chatting with Mom while she cooked and most importantly for me, this was the ideal place for my imaginary cooking show.

I would often corral my sister into sitting at the breakfast room table, while I did cooking demonstrations across the counter as though I was on TV. Since this was pre-Food Network, my influences were classic: Julia Child and the Swedish Chef from the Muppets.

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