AD 12500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Kitchen Stove, Major Appliance, Catharine Beecher
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Ironing, other seasonal items. sewing, and storage can also be incorporated into this space. Food preparation area (kitchen: although the food preparation area, or kitchen, is listed in the support/service area, it can serve as one of the primary social zones, as it is often the (cid:498)nerve center(cid:499) of a residence. The kitchen then became an isolated room designed for the specific function of preparing food. In 1841, catherine beecher published a study on domestic kitchen planning in which she pointed out that domestic services should be compacted to utility cores for convenience and time-saving efficiency. Kitchen activity centers: how efficiently a kitchen functions depends on the placement of its activity centers. With technological developments (along with changes in living patterns), the design and functions of the kitchen have changed drastically: the refrigerator/food storage center is generally both the first and the last in the food preparation sequence.
