The evolution of the kitchen

[Texasgal]

in pics.

http://dustyoldthing.com/evolution-of-kitchen/?utm_source=dot-dot&utm_medium=social-fbgla&utm_campaign=dot-evolution-of-kitchen-w47_dupe6889

Very cool link!

[WhiteTara]

1. Thanks. That was interesting.

[irisblue]

2. Thanks, that was cool.

Doris Days' kitchen though.....wooo, how decorations & style changed.

[ret5hd]

3. That was kinda cool. What I found iteresting was...

the idea that women going into the industrial workplaces (and the assembly-line "everything has its place" efficiencies) during WWII drove the desire for efficient flowing workplaces in their kitchens.

[irisblue]

4. I liked the Ottawa Canada house, using the heat to warm the sitting room. nt

[Galileo126]

5. That was fun!

I remember growing up on the 2nd floor of my Grandpa's house. The kitchen had a kerosine stove, which also doubled as the heater for the entire house. One not dared closed the bedroom door in the wintertime. I also remember my mom dressing me for bed in the winter with a toque and sweaters (yes, plural). Dang, the "heater" stunk, too. No one liked that stove, but that's all we had.

Now I look at my wall double self-cleaning ovens and giggle.

[Warpy]

6. One of the BBC "time traveler" series over at You Tube

traces a kitchen from the 40s through the 00s while a family tries to cope with the changes in diet through that time. I could relate to all of them and more, having dealt with Victorian kitchens in Boston that had a more modern free standing gas stove, a free standing sink, fridge on the porch.. One granny had a 1920s kitchen and the other had a 1930s kitchen and I saw subsequent changes as my folks moved from place to place. Yes, I remember the ice box with drip pan underneath, it was one of my favorite toy I now have a 1940s kitchen with better appliances and no counter space.

(sorry, can't remember the name of the series, can't find it now. Too bad, it was hilarious)

[dem in texas]

7. Tales from My Mother-In-Law

My late mother-in-law grew up in Western Kentucky in the area that is now the Land Between the Rivers Park, but was a primitive wildness area when she was a child. She grew up in a log house with a dog trot with no electricity or indoor plumbing. Her family was very poor, her father, a farmer who supplemented the food supply with wild game. They did not have a stove, but cooked in the open hearth. She said they had iron rods that swung out from the fire, you'd hang pots on the hooks and swing them back into the fire or over the coals. I love food history and so enjoyed her telling how they prepared their foods . I so wish that I'd had a tape recorder when she talked.