Ever the curious young designer, after winning a kitchen design competition in The Observer in the mid-60s, Makepeace used the money to travel to Nigeria and Morocco, where he studied the local mud buildings: "very beautiful and circular - they look as though they belong in the landscape".
On Wednesday, the Food Network rolled out "Camp Cutthroat," a "Cutthroat Kitchen" spinoff competition show advertised with the tagline "This time, we're playing with campfire". On Thursday, Destination America's "BBQ Pit Wars" reached the finale of a grueling season of cross-country grilling.
But the enterprising spirit of the technology here, the trial-and-error search for the next best thing, has arguably done more for the modern kitchen than the competition in sterling that, as Wilson dutifully notes, produced the elaborate trefoil spoon of Restoration England, and the Victorian berry spoon, with its fancy holes, and, for that matter, our own briefly ubiquitous silver spork.
It has become a sport in the kitchen, almost a competition, to see who can find the coolest way to upcycle the by-products we are producing.
In the Junior Baseball competition, Kitchen Photography picked up a 7-6 win against the Vaquero Express to capture the championship.
In the official competition, Nourish Kitchen and Table took third place, for best adaptation and use of healthy ingredients (a victory for kale), and Patricia Clark came in second.
PAGE C1 REHAB IN THE KITCHEN There is no competition for a single winning spot on "The Chef Jeff Project," a new reality series beginning Sunday on the Food Network.
As the host of the high-pressure professional chefs competition "Hell's Kitchen" and the makeover series "Kitchen Nightmares" (a series he folded after "I woke up one morning and felt that level of unappreciated support from the contributors"), he has been famously volatile and profane.
It also faces stiff competition from kitchen-sink warehouses like Wal-Mart and Costco.
At another camp, we had impromptu spear-throwing and archery competitions with the kitchen staff.
