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The
Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth
Edition, 2000
“Kitchen:
separate room or other space set aside for preparation of
meals. When cooking
first moved indoors, it was performed, with other domestic labors,
in the common room, where the fire burned on the hearth, or - even
earlier, before chimneys were known – on the floor in the center
of the room. With the
building of larger houses, the kitchen became a separate room.”
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