Sometimes the Kitchen of the Future Was Having No Kitchen At All

Sometimes the Kitchen of the Future Was Having No Kitchen At All

The American kitchen has always been a battleground for competing visions of the future. But one of the most radical ideas for the kitchen of tomorrow wasn’t some Space Age design with all the bells and whistles — it was actually having no kitchen at all.

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8 Gadgets That Were Going to Make It Easy to Find Good Help These Days

8 Gadgets That Were Going to Make It Easy to Find Good Help These Days

At the turn of the 20th century, middle and upper-middle class technologists were obsessed with the "servant problem," which you might know better as the old adage: It’s so hard to find good help these days. These were the technological leaps that would to make unreliable human assistants as obsolete as broken butter churns.

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