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Ooh boy, I bet you could do an entire sociology PhD on this topic if you wanted. We just built a house with the very opposite. Kitchen is the center of the hom
by positr0n 4y ago
Ooh boy, I bet you could do an entire sociology PhD on this topic if you wanted.
We just built a house with the very opposite. Kitchen is the center of the home. I want to be able to cook and converse with people in the dining room or the living room. I want to be able to clean and watch the kids do homework.
Anyway, part of the sociology aspect of this is that cooking has moved from something your servants did, to something that your wife did, to something that is acceptable for high status people to do.
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoThis was called 'Wohnküche'(Kitchen to live in), and enabled by things like 'Kachelofen'(Masonry stove) in Germany, but died out about 100 years ago. Or at least anything built after WW2. The Russians with their colder climate pushed this to the extreme with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_stove https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_stove where the thermal mass and ducts also heated the room instead of only being used for cooking.
- wrp 4y agoThis is interesting. If I understand correctly, European housing evolved from open to closed kitchens during the same period that American housing went in the other direction. A friend of mine in Korea has an apartment with both solutions. There is a large kitchen area open to the dining/living area, and also a sliding glass door separating a second complete (but small) kitchen with a large window to the outside.