Emotional Remodeling, Origin of ‘Kitchen’

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Forget about just the financial return on investment, today’s DIY is emotional remodeling. Plus, find out the origin of the word kitchen, and the new editor of World of Interiors is making some changes.

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Why a “kitchen” isn’t called a “cooking room”? For example, we have the living room, bathroom, and dining room.

In summary, experts say both kitchen and cook actually come from the same source: Latin’s coquere (CO_KUR_A) that means ‘to cook.’

It then became the noun coquina (CO-KEY-NA), which became Old English cycene SI-SCENE), and then Middle English kichene (kE-chEne)

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Condé Nast’s World of Interiors first issue under Hamish Bowles’ leadership is hitting newsstands this month.

After saying yes to Anna Wintour’s request to take over as the third editor in the 40-year history of the magazine, he started making some changes with podcasts and videos as a way of ‘amplifying print images of an environment.’

Are your home improvement decisions based on return on investment or are they emotional remodeling decisions?

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