Or you build yourself a cozy L-shape, then from the living room you can just catch a glimpse of the dining table, but no more than that.
The large open-plan rooms were not even statically possible in the past, or servants worked in the kitchen and you didn’t want to see them, only the finished food.
Nowadays, the technology is completely different, of course you cannot work with IKEA appliances which are loud and poor quality. And many people nowadays don’t mainly cook greasy, dripping and stinky food, but for example some vegetables in the steam cooker or a raw food salad. If there are smells, they are quietly and efficiently sucked away by a Berbel or a Gutmann and not by the IKEA Molnigt.
I still know it from the parents’ and grandparents’ generation, where the kitchen constantly stinks. There’s homemade fish soup again or a big meat stew or whatever – all things that wouldn’t even occur to us (lots of meat, greasy, unhealthy, bland…).
Nutrition is quite a trendy topic right now, surely everyone who occasionally reads a newspaper will have noticed. Even local papers now have articles about Paleo, vegan, gluten-free, clean eating, etc. Of course, dealt with extremely superficially there.
And in contrast to these healthy or supposedly healthy diets is, for example, the now permitted import of the greatest toxin worldwide (high fructose corn syrup). Because that stuff is extremely cheap, it will soon be used in all ready meals.
So, if the appropriate technology is available which works quietly and efficiently, I see no reason to outsource certain daily living activities into special rooms. Of course, if someone makes fish soup every two days, they might be better off with a separate kitchen.
Yesterday we had mussels without Berbel... there was no smell.
Paleo on Mondays, vegan on Tuesdays, the meat stew on Saturdays, it doesn’t stink and although it’s made with oil instead of margarine, otherwise it’s comparably healthy as back in grandma’s days.
I also wouldn’t know why, in your opinion, people don’t cook anymore nowadays?
Not everywhere does the TM take over cooking or steaming – I only know households where there’s almost daily warm home-cooked food on the table.
It didn’t stink at grandma’s, but I have to admit it was cooked with more fat. I believe one of my grandmas didn’t even have an extractor hood over her gas stove.