Welcome to The Culinary Exploratorium, the space that contains the delights from my kitchen to those of the world. Here I invite you to join me in investigating, discovering and creating authentic dishes, adding my new twists to the classics, and experimenting with old flavors brought into a new culinary scene.
At the Culinary Exploratorium, I feature recipes from the Classic Kitchen, where I take traditional fare and add twists and turns to enhance the classic flavors. Calling from classic recipes, this portion of the Exploratorium often encompasses family favorites made healthy, and as such, many of the meals that I eat on a regular basis.
Frequently an extension of the Classic Kitchen, the Confectionary Kitchen is where my favorite hobby flourishes- or shall I say, swelters. In this kitchen, all of my baked goods- the classics, the classics with a twist, the not-so-typical, the originals, and the internationally-inspired- are featured. Sometimes drawing from the kitchens of others, this section highlights the best of the best, the best of the healthiest, and the best of the unusual. And of course, it is all mouthwatering!
A crucial part of the Culinary Exploratorium is the Kerosene Kitchen, where I present the recipes of people, women mostly, who crouch around single burners with attached gas tanks, cooking simple, yet flavorful, dishes that pop.
I also bring you into my kitchen, where I take many of these authentic dishes and adapt them to be accessible for an American (or Western) kitchen and, occasionally, palette. My aim here is to maintain as much authenticity as possible, but to also account for approachability. In the kerosene kitchen at home, I experiment with this balance, but I always aim to be clear with where I am veering from traditional recipes.
Lastly (but not least-ly!), the Canteen Kitchen exhibits photographs and reviews of food I've found in restaurants that I think has good elements. It is official- the incorporation of this kitchen into the Culinary Exploratorium means that I have now become one of those people who photographs all of my food in restaurants. The upside is that in this section, I make my own attempts at those Canteen favorites.
The Culinary Exploratorium is the virtual space where all of the kitchen’s I have cooked in, or experienced the results of, merge together to form one Exploratorium, one singular evolution, amalgamation, and abundance of flavor that will make your taste buds sing.
Please join me in discovering them!
Happy Exploring, and of course, Eating,
Kelsey
Culinary Explorer
