Cooking Little is a growing collection of ideas, small kitchen cooking tactics and products geared for the small kitchen. The most important small kitchen tactics are expressed through the categories: versatile -- items with multiple uses and therefore space savers; vertical -- items that don't use limited counter space; and practical -- the smart basics. The pro category will collect tips from professionals and kitchen items inspired by industry staples.

The goal is not to be a small kitchen survival guide, therefore beautiful and ingenious objects will be featured to help make small kitchen cooking an art form. Personal choice will be an on-going theme because kitchens, people and cooking styles vary. This inspired categories such as eco, ergo and even impractical. If someone has a particular passion why shouldn't they devote most of their kitchen space to it?

The Out (of the kitchen) section will feature information on culinary travel, cooking classes, tastings and such.

The idea for Cooking Little came, not surprisingly, at a crowded kitchen table. Over meals on a vintage Formica table in Brooklyn, New York, it became obvious that most of us had developed personal tactics for mastering our small kitchens. Some learned their city-cooking skills while living in New York or other big cities as adults. Others adapted what they learned at home as kids in the US, Europe and Asia.

Katie Gallagher is the editor of Cooking Little. Many of the people who have visited her kitchen table are now trusted contributors and testers.