Garage kitchens: Across Melbourne’s north...
They’re reserved for the most serious cook-ups
On Grace Salera’s stove, chicken soup is bubbling alongside a pot of boiling potatoes, focaccia dough is rising on the benchtop, and a cake sits on a cooling rack.
Nearby there is an oven, two fridges, freezer, coffee machine and pastry maker, alongside a dining setting, television, couch and wood heater.
The only difference with this kitchen? It’s in the garage.
Butler’s pantries and outdoor kitchens have gained popularity in recent times, but for many southern Europeans, the garage has long hosted more than beat-up bicycles and the stench of engine oil.
It’s the place of the hallowed second kitchen, reserved for the most serious cook-ups.
Taylors Lakes nonna Mrs Salera has always had a kitchen in the garage, from the time she was a girl growing up with Calabrian parents in Melbourne’s north.
Her pristine white inside kitchen barely gets a workout – it’s the garage kitchen that feeds her family of four children and seven grandchildren, using produce grown a few metres away in the backyard.
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