About Us

NYKYtchen traded The Big Apple for The Bluegrass, circa Derby 2009.

Our quality of life has seen a healthy uptick since then. “Gardening” once consisted of watching the Superintendent hose down the sidewalk. Today organic produce grows in our backyard, (or snackyard as one of us likes to call it.) Harvesting grub still feels a little magical. Plucking dinner from a vine pushes those days of boxed noodles and jarred sauces to a dusty part of the mind.

Our old Manhattan kitchen is pictured left. That’s pretty close to scale actually. The stove you see here is 20 inches wide, the room itself occupying about 1/10th of a 650 square foot apartment! You could not work a spatula without elbowing the wall and there was almost enough counter space for a cutting board, but only if you put the coffee maker in the livingroom.

Still, we dined big and learned that a kitchen can be as vast as the menu that rolls out of it.

Without question, food is the element of New York life we miss most consistently. The intent here is to document our attempts at recreating the city’s cutting-edge, ethnically diverse and mouth-watering cuisine, and doing so with the bounty of local ingredients and influences we have available to us here in our Louisville, KYtchen.