MY KITCHEN
Lulu Grimes L
ulu Grimes, Deputy editor of Olive magazine and former Food Director of BBC Good Food UK, trained at Leiths School of Food and Wine. She has edited many books and travelled the world researching food publications. She lives in East London with her husband, John, and six-year-old son, Oliver. The family extended their Georgian home last year to create an open-plan kitchen and upstairs room for Oliver.
What sort of kitchen did you grow up with? I lived in Assam, India, when I was very little and the kitchen was not one you went into, because 78 BBC Good Food Middle East May 2013
Food editor Lulu Grimes shows Holly Brooke-Smith around her bold, bright and functional kitchen. Photographs GEOFF WILKINSON
we had a cook. I remember that it had a woodburning stove and we had a soda maker and oldfashioned glass bottles with marble stoppers. The first kitchen I remember clearly is the one we had when we moved to London – I was about ten. It was very modern for the time, big and open with a dining table in the middle. What were you aiming for? I knew that I wanted red and a concrete surface. It’s a big room, so it needed a bright colour – too much white would have looked like a hospital. I also knew I didn’t want to have an oven that you have to bend over to use, or a cooker hood in the