Reviews for Great Kitchens: Design Ideas from America's Top Chefs

The average rating for Great Kitchens: Design Ideas from America's Top Chefs based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-10-01 00:00:00 Lorne Tworek An interesting biographical factoid here, a potentially useful innovation there -- but overall not a particularly interesting or useful book. Not really "design ideas" so much as photos of kitchens with some accompanying information about the individual chefs and what they like. Maybe rich people who are redoing their own kitchens would find this book helpful, but huge, inspiring spaces with custom-built ovens, movable islands, and other personalized features are way out of my price range, so reading it mostly just made me frustrated with my generic little kitchenette and its flickering florescent lights, lack of counter space, and easily stained cheapo surfaces. I was hoping for more about what food the chefs liked to cook at home, but other than a few recipes in the back there wasn't too much actual food in the book.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-09-20 00:00:00 Marksman Peralta This book was a bit of a disappointment. What I wanted was a book that talked about layout and necessary kitchen components, as thought about by chefs. I was really looking for more of a book on how to make a kitchen the most functional for cooking. This is really a home decor book more than anything. It's all about how the kitchen's "feel" rather than how they function. I guess people who want to see what some famous chefs from the late 1990s' kitchens look like, might be into this book.