An Ideal Kitchen: Miss Parloa's Kitchen Companion

An Ideal Kitchen is a work by Maria Parloa. It provides the theory and illustrated plans on how to build the practical and enjoyable kitchen. How few people who build houses give proper attention to the plan and construction of the kitchen. Pains may be taken to have the exterior of the building attractive, the halls broad, the parlors spacious and finely finished, the dining-room bright and inviting, the chambers airy and sunny, but the plan of the kitchen generally receives much less thought than its importance deserves, if one be seeking to make the house as nearly perfect as is practicable.