THE BULLETIN • FEBRUARY 4 - 10, 2021
TV • PAGE 21
BY GEORGE DICKIE
Get that kitchen in shape with tips from YouTube content creators
The holidays are history. You’re
bored, quarantined and likely looking
for a project to distract you from
what is surely a long, cold winter
ahead. So why not take a look at the
kitchen?
Yes, any home cook worth their
salt knows that an organized kitchen
not only saves space but also is the
key to a smooth-functioning cooking
operation. And from that, better
meals will undoubtedly result.
A number of videos and channels
on YouTube take on this very topic, a
few of which are detailed below.
“10 Easy Kitchen Organization
Ideas 2021” (www.youtube.com/
watch?vPzdRG5epr4Q): Get the new
year off right with interior designer
Kristen McGowan, your host for
this informative video that offers up
budget-friendly ways of getting your
kitchen in order, focusing on the
countertop, pantry, cupboard and
drawers. With a little imagination
and a few glass containers, she
transforms a kitchen in disarray into
one that looks neat and tidy, if not
stylish. She even has ideas for what to
do with that open bag of pet food.
“Refrigerator Organization
Ideas” (www.youtube.com/
watch?vgvfkR6fw1lw): Another
area that seems to be a magnet for
disorganization and mess is the
fridge. This video from LGQueen
Home Decor tackles the problem
starting with giving the appliance a
good cleaning inside and out. Then,
clear containers for items like eggs,
fruits and vegetables allow for at-a-
glance access to contents. In the end,
they say, you’ll have more room, there
will be a place for everything and
things won’t look so cluttered.
“Small Pantry Organization” (www.
youtube.com/watch?vGb3qOZIPtfA):
From Carissa Nunez of “Carissa
Cleans It All” comes this video
in which she uses inexpensive
organizers, glass jars and dry food
containers to get her small closet
pantry in ship shape and maximize its
limited space. And the best part of it
is the cost for the materials comes in
at just under $100. Just the solution
for those on a budget
“Master the Mess” (www.youtube.
com/watch?v52017XT9rHg): Yes, it
has production values more on par
with a reality show but this series
from professional organizers Clea
Shearer and Joanna Teplin offers up
some legitimate solutions as they tend
to their clients’ home organization
problems in the Nashville, Tenn.,
area. Two videos that address the
pantry and fridge aim to resolve some
messy and in some cases unhealthy
storage situations.
Kristen
McGowan
BY JAY BOBBIN
Edward Burns
OF ‘BRIDGE AND TUNNEL’ ON EPIX
WebLinks
If Sunday’s Super Bowl isn’t your
bowl of kibble, Animal Planet
offers Puppy Bowl XVII instead,
which help raise awareness of
pet adoption and features shelter
animals from across the country.
Meet the furry players at www.
facebook.com/PuppyBowl
Phil Keoghan hosts as a new
round as working-class Ameri-
cans are tested for their strength,
endurance, agility and mental
toughness in challenges that take
place in the real world in the sec-
ond season of “Tough as Nails,”
dropping Wednesday on CBS.
Watch full episodes of Season 1
at www.cbs.com/shows/tough-
as-nails/
Though “Bridge and Tunnel” largely is about a group of
young friends in the early 1980s, what did you want to put
into your role as the father of one of them?
One of the first things I did when I started to build out the world of
this story was to think of John Mahoney’s character in “She’s the
One” (written and directed by Burns). I said, “Let me see if I can
come up with something like that for myself, someone who’s a little
goofy and a little funny.”
He’s a composite of my dad and my uncle and a bunch of the grown-
ups I grew up with. I got very lucky in that, being a working-class kid,
I was never exposed to anyone in the arts. We didn’t know anyone
who wasn’t a cop or a foreman or a plumber, and when I said I
wanted to be a writer, my dad couldn’t have been more supportive.
And I knew I wanted this character to be that kind of dad.
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