The rise of the open kitchen
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The rise of the open kitchen
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Re: The rise of the open kitchen
#2I was hoping this was going to talk about the increasingly trendy open kitchen concept in homes, or more specifically answer the question: why have kitchens traditionally been separated from dining areas in the first place?
Unfortunately, the article is about restaurants.
Re: The rise of the open kitchen
#3I was hoping this was going to talk about the increasingly trendy open kitchen concept in homes, or more specifically answer the question: why have kitchens traditionally been separated from dining areas in the first place? Unfortunately, the article is about restaurants.
why have kitchens traditionally been separated from dining areas in the first place?
Not long ago, cooking was often done exclusively by “the help”.
Re: The rise of the open kitchen
#4I was hoping this was going to talk about the increasingly trendy open kitchen concept in homes, or more specifically answer the question: why have kitchens traditionally been separated from dining areas in the first place? Unfortunately, the article is about restaurants.
why have kitchens traditionally been separated from dining areas in the first place? Not long ago, cooking was often done exclusively by “the help”.
We didn't have "help" growing up but when there was a dinner party, there was still the idea that you had the dining room and that all the food prep/cleanup happened out of sight in a different room. You certainly didn't have mingling of guests and food prep/delivery.
This wasn't really upper class but it was influenced by British norms, albeit in the US, even if there weren't servants involved.
Re: The rise of the open kitchen
#5I was hoping this was going to talk about the increasingly trendy open kitchen concept in homes, or more specifically answer the question: why have kitchens traditionally been separated from dining areas in the first place? Unfortunately, the article is about restaurants.
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#6I was hoping this was going to talk about the increasingly trendy open kitchen concept in homes, or more specifically answer the question: why have kitchens traditionally been separated from dining areas in the first place? Unfortunately, the article is about restaurants.
Further, whenever we had guests, we all tended to congregate in the kitchen anyway.
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#7https://cocinahermanostorres.com/en/
In Barcelona is a perfect example of this. Amazing food and amazing location
Re: The rise of the open kitchen
#8I was hoping this was going to talk about the increasingly trendy open kitchen concept in homes, or more specifically answer the question: why have kitchens traditionally been separated from dining areas in the first place? Unfortunately, the article is about restaurants.
Homes were smaller in the old days.
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#9As a non-affluent person who lives in a slightly less “modern” city … I could really use some pictures to quickly understand what an open kitchen looks like in this context.
Re: The rise of the open kitchen
#10I was hoping this was going to talk about the increasingly trendy open kitchen concept in homes, or more specifically answer the question: why have kitchens traditionally been separated from dining areas in the first place? Unfortunately, the article is about restaurants.
why have kitchens traditionally been separated from dining areas in the first place? Not long ago, cooking was often done exclusively by “the help”.
The cooking is still exclusively done by "the help" in restaurants, but the article indicates that the theatre, so to speak, of food preparation has come to be considered a desirable trait by those occupying the dining room.
So this doesn't quite answer why they settled on keeping it hidden instead of a display of entertainment. There is no reason to think people in that time wouldn't have found the same enjoyment in watching the food get made.
Most likely the answer is that it's just what one notable person happened to decide, by random chance, to do with his kitchen arrangement, and everyone else copied it in hopes that it would make them equally notable. Pretty much all human behaviour can be explained that way.