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Get extra storage and counter space in your kitchen with a kitchen island or cart. Decide between any shape and size to match your kitchen. Graceful kitchen center islands help organize the kitchen while saving time & space.
These top-quality kitchen islands are made of solid wood with butcher block or granite tops. The End Grain Butcher Block work islands are made of oiled hardwood and offer an ideal work surface for food preparation.
Kitchens evolved from the cooking area located next to the hearth in the multi-purpose hall. By the eighteenth century, larger houses in New England had added a kitchen room to the rear of the house-usually with an adjacent smaller room for food storage called a larder, pantry or buttery. In the southern states, where the climate is more temperate, kitchens were often separate "kitchen houses", slightly removed from the main dwelling, and made of brick to guard against fires. Surely the most revolutionary development in the evolution of the modern kitchen was the introduction of the cooking range in the late 1830's. The iron stove - which like it's predecessor, the fireplace, burned coal or wood - also served to heat the room.
Storing foodstuffs was a major concern for households in rural America. Furniture for country kitchens was constructed to stand up to heavy use, thus, a fair number of good pieces from the early twentieth century, nineteenth century and even late eighteenth century have survived. Broadly, - except for seating furniture - kitchen furniture performed a storage or work function. Sturdy work tables of prior centuries and oak examples from this century, are still in use in many contemporary homes.
A dough trough was an essential piece, designed to serve two functions in the process of making bread. The baker kneaded the dough on the flat top and then set it to rise inside the trough. Dry sinks were popular from the early 1800's, cupboards with tin or zinc lined troughs used in pre-plumbing era for washing dishes and doing other wet chores. Popular nineteenth century storage pieces include the jelly cupboard, pie safe, and the bucket bench. (from Country Antiques and Collectibles, edited by Carter Smith)
