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…and here we are in the kitchen—ah, the kitchen!

I’m going to get all traditional and Olde Worlde on you in this room, because I shall assume (deep breath, Liz, and prepare for considerable Female Wrath and Loathing) that the kitchen is a room where the Lady in your house spends more time, and has greater influence and control, than the Gentleman. I know, I know, it’s going against everything that women burned their shapeless bras and cut their long tresses off for all those years ago (and a great many more serious sacrifices, I do realise) but, despite all the great advances in sexual equality, bra design and hair products, in every household I can think of, it’s the adult with the female genitals who is at home more, cooks more and considers the kitchen Hers.

Please don’t get all huffy—I’m not making the rules here, and there are obviously exceptions where the Man of the house wears the apron and likes to pretend he’s Gordon Ramsay for the evening. However, for most of us—having won the unquestionable right to work down a coal mine if we should so desire—perhaps we should now try to embrace our relationship with the kitchen: it usually has groovy electrical appliances, pedal bins, tea- and coffee-making facilities, a radio, and all the food (hurrah!!). It’s also the room where the family congregates, celebrates, debates and argues most. Thanks to the trend of smashing walls down to create huge, openplan kitchen/entertaining rooms and the arrival of some breathtakingly stylish kitchen units, worktops and appliances, this room is returning to its original place at the Heart of the Home. And about bloody time too.

So if we stop and think about it for a moment, we soon realise it’s the best room to be in, as it acts like a kind of Family Mission Control, with us at the helm. Doesn’t seem so bad now, does it?