The Fall 2009 Kitchen Cure

What better way to finish unpacking and organizing my kitchen than to sign up for Apartment Therapy's four-week Kitchen Cure? I was excited to see my friend, J-fer, participating, since her orderly kitchen inspires me already!

Unlike many cure-takers, I suspect, I moved into my home less than a month ago, and am stocking my kitchen and my pantry nearly from scratch. In the past, I've always shared kitchens with roommates, so although I have a minimum foundation of kitchen tools and utensils, my kitchen's symptoms are best described by the nursery rhyme:

Old Mother Hubbard
went to the cupboard
to get her poor dog a bone.
But when she got there,
the cupboard was bare.
And so the poor dog had none.