Kitchen: nf A kitchen is a room reserved for the preparation of food. The kitchen, as a separate room, appears around the XNUMXth century BC. J. - C., but, in Antiquity, it preserves a religious character: the hearth where meats and vegetables cook is also the furnace bridge of the worship of the gods lares (souls of the ancestors become protectors of the hearth).
The Roman kitchens of large residences are already very well equipped, with cistern, sink, bread oven, cavities made in the plans...
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