[Magdalen] How do you buy a stove?

[Roger Stokes]

On 03/08/2015 16:28, ME Michaud wrote:
> A friend visited Mount Vernon and noticed the kitchen was in a separate
> building. Did the residents find the aromas of cooking so unpleasant they
> had to take the kitchen out of the house? he wondered. More likely that
> kitchens were hot and dangerous places that caught fire more than once in
> each person's lifetime.

I was used to that sirt of arrangement in historic houses in England so 
wasn't surprised to see it in Mount Vernon when I visited.  They were 
separate because of the risk of fire as well as the fact that they 
needed a high ceiling so the cooks weren't working in a cloud of smoke.  
Of course one downside was that you needed fast footmen to ferry the 
food to the dining hall before it got cold.

Roger