Inside Cookbook Author Radhi Devlukia’s L.A. Kitchen: From a Cooker Mishap to Her Earthy Sanctuary

The kitchen inside cookbook author Radhi Devlukia’s Los Angeles home serves double duty as the culinary workspace where she professionally demonstrates recipes and makes nearly every private meal for her family. Yet, the key prep space in the 2003 post-and-beam house was temporarily knocked out of commission when the seasonal plant–based chef made a disastrous rookie mistake, Devlukia, 36, reveals to Realtor.com in the latest Celebrity Sanctuary.“I got this beautiful cooker and oven from Europe that took, like, nine months to get to me. It's black with brass, and it's gorgeous,” says the Watford, England, native about the luxury free-standing range she had installed.“And then by accident, I left the pot filler on and ruined it after two weeks and had to wait another nine months to actually use it,” she adds. Such an appliance mishap would be a major inconvenience in any working kitchen, but for a health and wellness expert like Devlukia, any disruption in her cooking space is especially challenging for her businesses.The remodeled home kitchen is where the dietitian and nutritionist tests the recipes she shares with members of the digital cooking club she founded, the “Eat in Club,...