About Us

KitchenMatters.com is a website belonging to a young company located in the cold state of Vermont where we have a deep interest in making our kitchens the warm place to be on any given winter day. But more than that KitchenMatters.com is a community of kitchen and cooking enthusiasts from all over the country seeking advice, answers to cooking questions and a place to share kitchen experiences.

KitchenMatters.com is brought forth by the efforts of family wanting to spend less time commuting and more time communing. It is our mission to provide a place online where others with a love for their hearths can Learn, Share, Plan and Shop. We hope to foster a community that grows.

Motivated by the love of cooking and the enormous market for kitchen matters, it is our hope that we can be both a timely and informative service to our guests and to learn from them as well. We hope to turn a small enough profit to afford to continue to build the site.

There are several key people involved in the creation of the KitchenMatters site.

Ed Rooney

Ed first had the idea for a KitchenMatters type site in 1998.He has leveraged his experiences of being a chef for over a decade. He works every day to bring content and functionality to the site and hopes that one day he will be able to do this as his only source of income.

He has a long background in web development and an educational background in ecological agriculture and botany among other varied interests. He relocated to Vermont from southern California over a dozen years ago and has not since looked back. He raises his three children and works late hours to grow the garden-helper and now KitchenMatters sites.

Joe Capone

Joe is specialized in website development with a background in custom programming. He attended Champlain College in the mid 90's and went on to work as a professional developer. Ed and Joe had worked closely together on a number of projects until Joe and his wife relocated to Florida. The kitchenmatters project now brings their creative collaborative talents back together.

Having passion for his career helps him maintain a full-time programmer position, operate his own consulting business, and stake claim to many projects including garden-helper.