More than simply a site for cookery, the kitchen has been home to scientific endeavour, empiricist knowledge, political expressionism, and touristic spectacles of architecture, design and technology. Writing about the kitchen is thus a powerful tool for communicating wider discourses.
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Middleton, L. Alexis Soyer’s empiricist kitchen. Nat Food 4, 122–123 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00681-x
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