>But in the past, someone walking into the kitchen while you were cooking would probably have been akin to them walking in on you in the toilet Depends on how

>But in the past, someone walking into the kitchen while you were cooking would probably have been akin to them walking in on you in the toilet Depends on how far in the past, and where. In the USSR, kitchen has always been the place where people would end up spending a long time talking about whatever. There is even a phrase "kitchen conversations", which would mean talking politics (without regard to what the Party says). And, of course, the Kitchen was the social hub in the communal flats (living with roommates, Soviet-style). There usually would be no common area in a communal flat other than the kitchen.