Hidden Kitchens: a parallel quest

The other day, I was listening the Fresh Air on NPR, and the host interviewed two women, known as the "Kitchen Sisters," who produce a series of segments called Hidden Kitchens. The point of the series is to document local and community-based foodways that fly beneath the radar of most palates. One splendid example was a story about the value of a common, inexpensive appliance, the George Foreman Grill, in the lives of people who would otherwise have no kitchen: homeless folk, residents of SRO housing, etc.

The approach of the Hidden Kitchens series is a touchstone for what I want to achieve with regard to landscape, that is to discuss, document and make gardens, parks, plazas or pavilions that are otherwise unexamined. Lo-Cale will be a tool in that quest, I hope, a notepad where I can record what I see and speculate about what might be built.