Adding Style to a Kitchen

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The kitchen is a place often filled with heat and the hard work of chopping and cooking, but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be stylish and well-designed. Lidia Bastianich, the New York-based restaurateur, cookbook author and TV personality, believes that a visually appealing kitchen can inspire creativity in her cooking and engage her dinner guests. "I want the kitchen to be joyous," she says.