In a message dated 7/15/2004 12:00:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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My question is, when in the South did most kitchens
>become integral parts of large houses/households, rather than detached
>buildings?  The possibility for fire prevention certainly must have
>played a role, as did the availability or lack thereof of
>slaves/servants, among other factors.
>
Perhaps the heat of cooking was a consideration as well.  I have been in a
large two-story log house just north of Bosier City, LA that had a separate
kitchen building. It also had a separate "Delco building" for the chemical
generation of electricity so believe that it was all built well after WW I, probably
in the 20s, by a well-fixed man who had plenty of land, logs and hands to
build with and wanted a comfortable pied-a-terre.
John

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