# Ideal kitchen?


I'm always quite fascinated by medieval-like kitchens, I'd like to
have one for myself one day... But until the moment one is rich enough
to buy an old medieval farm-castle in France, one must stick with
dreaming. I also happened to need a new background for the [Inventário
de receitas](http://inventario.uncreated.net). So (after I saw this
amazing [composition
tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE3ftltJRbA) actually) I made
this one (click for bigger version):

[![](../../images/2014/cozinha-sm.jpg)](../../images/2014/cozinha.jpg)

It's basically a collage of many different pictures found on the net,
plus a bit of hand-painting, all made with [gimp](http://www.gimp.org/).
I didn't want the cheezy warm, yellowish, abundant, feasty look of the
usual clichés about middle ages, but rather a more austere, cistertian
idea with a lot of white stone and smoke.

I tried to do spend a bit of effort on the composition too, with that
"bottom-left to upper-right" movement, made by the smoke, the light,
and the green elements of the picture... Maybe not the best possible
result, but it's a start... Enjoy!