Eventually, we all get the kitchen we deserve
Possibly I'm a little obsessed with kitchens these days, but I found this article, in The New Atlantis, absolutely fascinating.
For one thing, there's this line:
During Khrushchev’s and Nixon’s “kitchen debate,� Khrushchev needled Nixon by asking, “Don’t you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down? Many things you’ve shown us are interesting but they are not needed in life. They have no useful purpose. They are merely gadgets.�Khrushchev might have been describing the modern American wedding registry.
But, even more, there's the revelation that those super-expensive appliances (Viking, Subzero, et al.) actually rate lower in quality than the ones we just put in our kitchen. (We generally went with the second-cheapest options, figuring there was no reason to be overly frugal.)
And, best of all, writer Christine Rosen reports that only 42-percent of households make even one hot meal per day at home. This made me feel like I might be about as domestic as the average American -- thrilling for me, but probably bad news for everyone else. And their children.
