Kitchenware - Couverture souple

Conran, Terrence

 
9781468466584: Kitchenware

Synopsis

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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9780442302948: Conran Design Guides: Kitchenware

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ISBN 10 :  0442302940 ISBN 13 :  9780442302948
Editeur : Van Nostrand Reinhold Inc.,U.S., 1990
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