At a table in the tidy kitchen of a house originally built for the cemetery caretaker, I had lunch with Liz McAlister, Sister Ardeth Platte, and Sister Carol Gilbert.
He wishes his 10-year-old daughter had her own room instead of the loft he built for her above the kitchen.
Like Alice through the looking glass (if Alice were played by Charlotte Rampling with a Dublin accent), Kerrigan, 36, sat at the robust wood table that her partner, Paul Leonard, also 36, built for them in the kitchen of their unfancy East Village loft.
When my 1840 Philadelphia row house was built for its seafaring owners, the kitchen was in the basement — like every other home on the block.
"Tony said something that struck a chord: that the kitchen was built for a different era, for someone working in the house, not living in it," Nolen said.
But that research, as well as the kitchen table he built for "Ballad of Jack and Rose" and the heavy knives he learned to throw for "Gangs of New York" and the scent that he thought Newland Archer would favor in "The Age of Innocence," is all just a preliminary inquiry into what, finally, emerges on screen, fully drawn.
The menu is built for speed, with dishes needing little time in the kitchen.
The kitchen that was built for her mail-order chutney business was soon used to host theme dinners, with menus inspired by the Time-Life cooking series.
The vast kitchen was built for butlers and maids, with pantries and glass cupboards and buzzers to all the rooms.
