How to Keep Guests
Out of the Kitchen
And understand why they’re
in there to begin with

By Lessley Anderson

You’ve seen it before: party guests crammed into a tiny, hot kitchen while the living room sits cool and empty. It’s frustrating for the host, particularly around the holidays, when he or she is trying to finish preparing an elaborate dinner. But before you can figure out how to get people out of the kitchen, you have to understand the reasons they head there in the first place. CHOW talked to sociologists who’ve studied people’s relationship with food and cooking to find out why people hover in the kitchen, and how one might[...]