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Homes & Gardens
Ottilie Blackhall

This kitchen writer says this is the reason you should never store recipe books in the kitchen – plus, where to keep them instead

Kitchen dining space with open shelving with red shiplap interior, books and crockery, dining table, to the left is mid blue cabinetry, Farrow & Ball : Asger Mortensen, Wester Agency.

If you're a lover of cooking, there truly is nothing better than a beautiful recipe book to pore over.

Therefore, there's also nothing better than a bookshelf stuffed full of them. But, did you know you shouldn't store recipe books in the kitchen? I didn't either, but according to New York Times Wirecutter kitchen writer Michael Sullivan, who truly has the kitchen of my dreams, bursting with beloved vintage gadgets and tools, they're best kept elsewhere.

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