FKM -- I feel this great urgency now to have you give me a list of everything I need in the kitchen, just so that I can simulate being an adult and possibly, at some point in the distant future, a civilized one as well (with the ultimate stamp of approval coming from ATAT's Mom).

Really depends upon whether you cook (I do, so if I let myself, I'd have all manner of odd cookware), and whether you are addicted to pottery of all sorts (thank your lucky stars that you are not!)