Our new kitchen pretty much trumps all kitchens in my checkered past of rental kitchens. I can teach baking and preserving classes right out of my home now since the living room sidles up, open-aired and glorious, to the miles of countertop I’ve been blessed with in our new East Austin abode.
With all this space and openness comes the counterweight downside: nearly nil cabinet space. Last weekend I conjured my inner Julia and Paul and hung a pegboard along the backsplash wall in our kitchen.
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Kate Payne is an author, freelance writer and educator. She teaches writing workshops and classes on home food preservation and other food-based instruction both privately and at culinary instruction schools and centers... 
