'New Yorker' cartoonists confess to nightmare kitchens

This is Fresh Air. I'm Terry Gross. My guests are two New Yorker cartoonists, Raz Chast. and Jason Adam Katzenstein, who have teamed up to reveal a shameful problem they share. Their kitchens. Their new graphic memoir, The Two Saddest Kitchens, Reveals it all in words and illustrations, including moldy food hiding in the back of the refrigerator, the shelf with plastic storage containers and lids, but none of the lids fit.

Dysfunctional appliances. And a couple of cockroach infestations. Chapter titles include The undersink cabinet of doom. And our kitchens are trying to kill us.

In an era where cooking shows and food travel shows are very popular and fabulous kitchenware is prized the Chast and Kassenstein confess they don't much like to cook. The book is laugh out loud funny. And don't tell my kitchen, but I relate to their descriptions. Ras Chas joined us after the publication of her graphic memoir Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant about her changing relationship with her parents in the last years of their lives when their physical and mental health were deteriorating.

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