HEART OF HEALTH

The superhighway of wellbeing starts with your fuel, and it’s a lot easier to create wholesome food, and feel good about doing so, if your kitchen has adequate storage, easily accessible pots and pans, and the room itself is well arranged. This isn’t about creating showy look-at-me kitchens though. After all, eating is seldom about display, rather, it’s about recognising the importance of the kitchen at the heart of our health, as well as our homes, and working out what can be done to help both along.

So, this month, I’m very excited to announce the first #Edkitchens digital takeover! For the whole of the month of March, ELLE Decoration is going kitchens and cookware crazy. We’ll be celebrating this vital home hub across our Instagram (@elledecorationuk), Facebook (ELLE Decoration), Pinterest (ELLE Decoration UK) and Twitter feeds (@ELLEDECOUK), as well as online (elledecoration.co.uk). We’ve planned a daily calendar full of exclusive #Edkitchens content, from answering your kitchen style queries to sharing the inside track on the hot, new culinary trends from our foodie friends and influencers; we’ll be posting our stories, news and kitchen moodboards and inviting you to send us your #Edkitchenshelfies! Be sure to check in every day to find out what’s going on, and join in the fun.

And, if you picked this issue up on the UK newsstand, or you’re sensible enough to be a subscriber, then you’ll also already have in your hands our beautiful annual 100-page Kitchens book, packed with even more inspiration, new kit, big trends and hot tech (Note: we do a Bathrooms book too, next issue out in September; and you can buy the back issues, see below, via the ELLE Decoration magazine app for just £2.99. This month’s one will be available in a digital format from April).

The thing is, kitchens don’t have to be complicated, but they do need to work. And be uncluttered. So step one: a ruthless audit. Have you fired up that ice-cream maker, ‘Nutribullet’ or spiraliser in the last six months? No. Then get rid. The path to wellbeing starts by surrounding yourself only with things you use, or love.

‘The superhighway of wellbeing starts with your fuel, and it’s a lot easier to create wholesome food, and feel good about doing so, if your kitchen is well arranged’

Editor-in-chief