As a food scholar and recipe developer, K.C. Hysmith was fully entrenched in the world of fake food before her first child was born. Ahead of her due date, Hysmith purchased a little vintage Italian aluminum tea set, one of those "millennial-marketed" Fisher-Price French press coffee sets and so much more.
There was one item, however, that she "begrudgingly" waited to purchase. Hysmith's partner had reminded her that because they were currently living in a small Boston apartment, it didn't necessarily make sense to make room for a play kitchen — something their daughter wouldn't be able to actually use for at least a year.
