This post was originally published on this site

SETTLING INTO a kitchen of her own recently was a big deal for Emiko Davies. “My daughter just turned 4, and since she was born we’ve moved house—and city, and country—six times,” the food writer and illustrator said. Ms. Davies grew up rather peripatetically herself, in Australia and China. Today you’ll find her in Italy because her husband, Marco Lami, a sommelier, was homesick.

For this art-school graduate, it wasn’t much of a leap from the studio to the kitchen. “What I love about darkroom photography or restoration…