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The other half of the kitchen is the commercial side of the kitchen, which has an audio-visual system and mirror so that students can view cooking methods up close and classes can be taped for later viewing.

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  1. noun A room or an area equipped for preparing and cooking food.
  2. noun A style of cooking; cuisine: a restaurant with a fine French kitchen.
  3. noun A staff that prepares, cooks, and serves food.

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  • Life in a cottage centres round the kitchen, and the kitchen is always at the back of the house. —  The Case is Closed - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 02: 1937
  • In modern houses, the kitchen is the center of the home. —  We Blog A Lot
  • Feng Shui in the kitchen is as important as Feng Shui in any other room. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • But again, teaching her how to "clean" the kitchen was a gradual process that took years to perfect. —  AllFinancialMatters
  • My slow learning curve in the kitchen is a family joke. —  The Debutante Ball
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  1. Middle English kichene, from Old English cycene, probably from Vulgar Latin *cocīna, from Late Latin coquīna, from feminine of Latin coquīnus, of cooking, from coquus, cook, from coquere, to cook; see pekw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English kitchen, kichen, kichene, kychen, kechen, cochine, kuchen, etc., from Anglo-Saxon cycen, cicen, cycene = Middle Dutch kokene, keukene, Dutch keuken = Middle Low German kokene, koke = Old High German chuhhina, chuchina, cuchina, Middle High German küchen, küche, German küche = Danish kjökken = Swedish kök = French cuisine (later English cuisine) = Spanish cocina = Portuguese cozinha = Italian cocina, cucina, from Latin coquina, a kitchen, a cooking-room, from coquere, cook: see cook.
  2. from kitchen, n.
 

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/ˈkɪtʃɛn/
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