I was also fairly shocked by that part of the article, but when you follow the actual link and read the design trend, its much less about having a second place

I was also fairly shocked by that part of the article, but when you follow the actual link and read the design trend, its much less about having a second place to _cook_. It’s a second place to store items, hold courses during parties and to hide away things that you’d use ‘between’ meals like coffee makers and the like that are a pain to clean on each use. Still crazy extravagant but not as bad as the throw away paragraph in the article suggests.