We rarely see kitchens in watercolors of nineteen-century interiors, for kitchens represented a place where the lower classes labored. Ornament tended to be utilitarian, in the form of gleaming copper pots or brightly pattern tableware. With quality of everyday accessories, a kitchen was recorded as a humble place of work rather than as one of entertainment.
Today in many houses the kitchen has become the grandest interior, stainless steel theaters where guests congregate to admire gleaming industrial equipment and the culinary feats of the host or hostess. Unlike the nineteen-century life, cooking has been regarded as a personally rewarding and sophisticated skill.
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