'The Busy Chef's Kitchen' is a perfect example of how something that I find quite unappealing in life-size scale can be such a delightful adventure in miniature scale. (After all, cooking is not my thing and I married a chef for a reason.)

Despite the culinary magic that can come to life within its walls, a kitchen can sometimes become a chaotic environment on the way to the magic.  At least, this kitchen has! There appears to be a bit of snacking going on, and there's even some serious cleaning going on as the nowhere-to-be-seen residents of this home prepare for a night of cooking in the kitchen.

The chef has not yet unpacked the groceries because he has chosen to indulge in a Martini before getting started.  First, he has to quickly run to the living room to check the score of the Giants game. Priorities. And his assistant, (who just happens to be his lovely wife), is preparing the fruit salad but she has wandered out of the room on the hunt for the tonic water that she just took it out the refrigerator but is unable to locate. That and her keys. She can't find her keys. Again.