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History of the kitchen.
The kitchen, like differentiated space, appeared in century V adC, conserving a
noticeable religious character: the own home where they were cooked all viands
was also used like place of cult to the Gods lares. The Roman kitchens were very
well equipped, having laundry, furnace of bread, cistern, tripods of bronze,
cavities to prick spices... Already in the Average Age, the kitchens of the
castles happened to be an important place, the daily activity was constant. They
were enormous cockpits with gigantic chimneys, in each kitchen one or several of
them could be found. They were divided in numerous annexed (bakery, Fruit
stand...). On the other hand in the bourgeois houses and farms the kitchen used
to be a common cockpit as much for the reception of people, as for the
accomplishment of the food and its later consumption. In the Renaissance they
are perfected, as much the equipment, as the decoration.
The European noble kitchens begin to be very luxurious,
caused mainly by the culinary revolution that took place. Into century XIX the
technical progresses, as they were it the kitchen battery and mainly the
furnace, transformed the kitchens in which great chef baptized like a
"laboratory". In the bourgeois houses it was a totally separated space of the
rest of the house and that even had a door on watch. It was gotten to locate in
the cellar or at the end of long corridors. The used utensils began to be very
abundant: balances, Drained, services of places setting, spice batteries, frying
pans, jars, etc. The land of the housewife was considered and as it proves of it
in Germany it created the "three stereotype of K" (Kinder: children, Kirche:
church, and Küche: kitchen). It already was in century XX when, due to the
progresses in illumination, the concepts of decoration and the appearance of the
refrigeration apparatuses, have been integrated the kitchen in the rest of the
house. It was in the middle of century when due to the limitations of space they
began to appear more functional equipment and began the commercialization of
kitchens already equipped.
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