57+ ‘Kitchen’ Writing Prompts
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Retracing Steps
Write about significant places you visited or frequented with your loved one and how each location plays a part in your memory of them.
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Remembering Grandma’s Kitchen
Describe the smells, sounds and feelings you associate with your grandmother’s kitchen.
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MasterChef Junior
Write a story about a delicious dish that you love to cook and the process involved in cooking it.
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Science Experiment Extravaganza
Write about a memorable science experiment you performed or observed.
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Latkes for the Soul
Use the preparation of traditional Hanukkah food, Latkes, as a backdrop for a heartwarming story.
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Tradition and Transformation
Write about a time you updated a traditional family recipe for National Empanada Day.
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Colorful Kitchen Stories
Recall your experience making or eating a multicolored meal for National Jelly Bean Day.
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Life Through Other Eyes
Imagine and describe a typical day in your life told from the perspective of a household object.
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The Magic Kitchen
Imagine walking into your kitchen and finding that anything you wished to eat instantly appeared, write about this magical kitchen.
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Granny’s Kitchen Diaries
Compose a biographical sketch of your grandmother through the lens of her kitchen.
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Farm to Table: Winter Edition
Describe a meal you would create sourcing ingredients available in February from a local farmer’s market.
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Harvest Season Delights
Write about your favorite fall harvest foods and how you love to prepare them.
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The Holiday Kitchen
Tell a story about your memories of cooking or baking during the holiday season in December.
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Comical Conquest of Culinary Arts
Unfolding the epic quest of a terrible cook trying to prepare a gourmet meal to impress a date.
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Nostalgic Flavor
Write about a meal or a particular food that takes you back to a specific moment in your past.
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Midnight Baker Spy
A pastry chef discovers their secret ingredient is a key element in a government conspiracy.
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Junior Chefs
Imagine your young self in the kitchen, experimenting with healthy ingredients to prepare nutritious meals for your friends.
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Hilariously Hopeless Romantic
Express the absurd lengths to which a character will go to impress their crush on Valentine’s Day.
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Love in the Kitchen
Write about a cherished recipe that your mother taught you and the memories associated with it.
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Culinary Adventures
Write about taking up cooking or baking as a hobby. How do you imagine your first experience in the kitchen? What delights and challenges do you foresee?
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The Witching Hour
Imagine waking up at 3am and noticing something odd, then realizing it’s not your home.
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Fright in Forgotten Corners
Develop a horror tale based on an often unnoticed spot within your house.
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A Hilarious Kitchen Fight
Your various kitchen utensils start a comical battle when nobody’s watching. Who would win and why?
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Soup Kitchen Chronicles
Write a narrative about volunteers at a local soup kitchen during a particularly harsh winter.
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Yuletide Morning
Describe waking up on a Christmas morning that you consider to be the perfect Christmas. Feel the excitement, the warm wishes, and the joy of the perfect holiday.
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Taste of Time
Recount a specific meal you remember having. Describe in detail the ambiance, people, and the flavors.
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Cosmic Cuisine Catastrophe
Imagine aliens landed, but rather than come in peace they’re contestants for an extraterrestrial episode of Top Chef.
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Futuristic Food Fiesta
Your recently acquired cooking robot, programmed to create gourmet meals, starts turning ordinary ingredients into disastrously funny dishes.
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Kitchen Tales: The Holiday Edition
Chronicle the story of a recipe that has been passed down through generations in a family’s holiday feast.
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The Chef’s Galley
Write from the perspective of the ship’s chef where the kitchen forms their universe.
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Kitchen Stories
Recall your favorite meals prepared by a family member and the warm stories that goes with them.
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Chef for the Day
You have been made the chef for a day at a five-star restaurant. Write about the experience.
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The Unassuming Object
Pick a random everyday object and make it the focal point of your microfiction.
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Dance of the Kitchen Utensils
Construct a poem illustrating the midnight dance of the kitchen utensils.
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The Essence of Aroma
Consider the scent that brings a rush of memories to you. Write a poem about that scent and the attached memories.
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Unraveling Inherited Recipes
Record a cherished family recipe and discuss the memories associated with it.
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Fleeting Fragrances
Describe a particular fragrance or smell that transports you back to a specific time or place in your past.
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Kitchen Memories
Detail a recipe that is significant to you and share a memory or event associated with it.
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Kitchen Catastrophes
Write about a disastrous cooking endeavor that turned into a learning experience.
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Lessons from the Family Kitchen
Reflect on the lessons you absorbed from your family kitchen, be it about cooking, relationships, or life in general.
