For Some, Kitchens Are Just Walk-In Closets

Isn't there some new cooking-at-home, hipster foodie, artisinalista trend happening? Apparently it hasn't made it from the outer-boroughs to Manhattan, where Paper's Alexis Swerdloff reports for the NY Post on kitchenistas—or in other words, those city dwellers who turn their kitchens into closets.

Not a new trend by any means, but don't you want to peak into their oven shoe racks? 26-year-old Bari Musacchio, who lives in a studio apartment in NoLita, describes the scene: “I have one closet, and things were overflowing, so I started putting shoes in the fridge. And then I moved on to my cabinets, where I now store my seasonal clothes — sweaters in the summer, T-shirts in the winter.” And it's not just twenty-somethings finding no need to cook in their kitchens, 37-year-old Jen Salgado asks, “Oh my gosh, who doesn’t use their kitchen as a closet in New York?” Good question...

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on March 30, 2010 11:10 AM

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WhattheF

Whats with all the haters? Its a photo shoot for a mag. Wasted energy!!!

Bike Rider

eating out for every single meal sounds more expensive than finding a bigger place to live and cooking for yourself. not to mention it would get SO fucking old so fast

Barry Popik

I heard she makes great shoe-fly pie.

Try her ciabatta and huaraches, too.

ANGRYGOD11

I've been to quite a few apartments and homes with beautiful kitchens owned by people who can't boil water. At least she's getting value from her klochen.

Gwinny

This is just great... I feel sorry for whoever rents those apartments next and uses the fridges for food...

Boogie Down

How lovely that the whole phenomenon of playing "Sex and the City" is still alive and well in New York. These people are filthy.

Cannibal

She doesn't need her kitchen because she lives off of $15 a can organic vegan dog food just like all of the other hipsterfarian reccessionistas.

Cannibal

Anyone caught adding the suffix "ista" to a word should be shot in the face.

theboneranger

also, looks like tardita still keeps the fridge plugged in for the shoes. what planet are these people from? lol

theboneranger

hey skanky, how about you learn to cook so you dont spend all your money on eating out. buy a shoe rack and/or get rid of some of those stinkies

lmd

this girl only needs two pairs of shoes. One for being an douchette and maybe another pair for being mocked in publications the homeless use as bedding. This way she can cook and still have a shoe for every dimension of her life.

1stephanie

If these people's metabolisms ever catch up with them, they can hang a tension rod for their caftans across the hole in the wall that EMS will have to cut to get them out of their apartment.