Robb Walsh, Food Writer for the Houston Press and multi-year James Beard Award nominee, recently put a Viking kitchen in his home. He was very kind to share some pictures with us. Pictured below is Jim Herd, whose company Collaborative Projects did the design and construction.

For more than 15 years, The James Beard Foundation has been in the forefront of America's culinary revolution. Often called "the Oscars of the food world," the annual James Beard Foundation Awards honor the top chefs, restaurants, food journalists, cookbook authors, and food show broadcasters.