Editing Kitchen (section)

===Colonial America===
In [[Connecticut Colony|Connecticut]], as in other colonies of [[New England]] during [[Colonial America]], kitchens were often built as separate rooms and were located behind the [[parlor]] and [[keeping room]] or [[dining room]]. One early record of a kitchen is found in the 1648 inventory of the estate of a John Porter of [[Windsor, Connecticut]]. The inventory lists goods in the house "over the kittchin" and "in the kittchin". The items listed in the kitchen were: [[silver spoon]]s, [[pewter]], [[brass]], iron, arms, ammunition, [[hemp]], [[flax]] and "other implements about the room".<ref>{{cite book|author=Trumbull, J. Hammond |year=1850|url=https://archive.org/stream/publicrecordsofc001conn#page/476/mode/2up |title=The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut 1636–1776|volume= 1|page= 476|publisher=Hartford, Brown & Parsons}}</ref>

Technological developments such as the [[Rumford roaster]] and the [[Kitchen stove|kitchen range]] enabled more efficient use of space and fuel.