Enjoyed this article by Janice Harper – Soul Food:  Or How to Give Your Kitchen More Soul.  The secret to soul in a kitchen is not what you buy and put into it, but in how you make room for people and nature to come into it:

• Good kitchens and souls have one fundamental feature: a sense of well-worn space
• What crawls across your kitchen floor?
• Let there be light
• What’s climbing up your walls?
• Colour is key
• Add wood
• Use other natural materials wherever possible
• Bring the garden inside