Kitchen Beyond Home：A Preliminary Study of the Development of “Parents-Children Kitchen” in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Chen,Yao-Jen, 陳瑤珍
• Other Authors: Tsai,Chien-Wen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/nf7v28

碩士 === 國立高雄餐旅大學 === 台灣飲食文化產業研究所 === 103 === Family, a key element to form the society shape as well as kitchen and dining table play an important role gathering everyone to show and give inheritance of the cooking skills. Along with the convenience and the rise of catering industry, people are prone to dine outside rather than self cooking. It is unfortunate that the kitchen is gradually losing its role function and has a strong impact on parents-children’s interaction. Nation Women`s League of R.O.C., founded in 1985 and until now, there are branches located in both North and South region. These cooking rooms with variety of specialties are well-managed by organizer; and provide a space with full of leisure and learning courses of cooking; especially children and parents are the main target. Parent-Child Joint-Cooking Process has been being as a well-known slogan and been set up as a goal by the local business and public bureau. Throughout the historical record and trace back the social formation of Parents-Children Kitchen over time, this research will focus on how to explore the kitchen shaped by owner and its revealed image away from the privacy of family: parents and children how to joint cooking in the public kitchen and classroom and how the Parents-Children Kitchen will reappear in the home kitchen? According to this research, cook space such as Parents-children Kitchens which functions as family entertainment and life education, has become homely space in city. Different features of each Parents-children Kitchens have been molded by operation and management. Consumers use experience of Parents-children Kitchens to build up good manners of children, absorb cooking information , strengthen parent-child relationship, and provide public entertainment . Furthermore, it could improve the willingness of cooking together between parents and children. Indeed, Parents-children Kitchens are the best place to propagate food education.