ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors wish to thank all those manufaeturers
and designers who answered queries and I:MACHINES AND searehed
through thei r areh ives, the supportive and professional
APPLIANCES 23 staff at Conran Octopus and Si r Terence Conran for
his personal interest and guidance. NOTE TO READER Names of objects
and designers pnnted in roman or bald type denote that a photograph
of the 2:UTENSllS AND obJeet or a biography of the designer can be
found elsewhere in the book. GADGETS 35 3:POTS AND PANS 47
4:KETTlES AND COFFEEPOTS 57 BIOGRAPHIES 72 INDEX 80 6 KITCHENWARE
THE SPECIALIZED WORLD OF THE KITCHEN Ever since orchoeologists
found 0 frYlng pan amid the ruins of Pompeii, the utensils ond
godgets thot people hove used to prepore food hove been on
importont meosure of how for society hos progressed. Todoy's
kitchen equipment hos 0 lineoge stretching bock In time to Jericho
4000 yeors Be, the eorliest recorded use of cooking utensils. The
Romans mode doi Iy use of kettles, pots, sieves, knives ond spoons,
ond in mony coses our modern-doy eqU/volents hove not been much
updoted. Techniques ond tools from Roman times - for exomple, their
bronze ohd metol colanders (colare is the Lotin word for 'to
stroin') - hove remoined port of our batterie de cuisi ne
throughout the twentieth century.
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