Wednesday, November 9, 2011

The Kitchen - The Heart of Every Home



Hundreds of years in the kitchen, or simply fire, stone and pot in the middle of the living room with a simple hole in the roof to allow smoke to escape. The fire was the only source of heat and light, around which the entire family will gather on a cold dark night. There was no selection of pots and pans, no tray full of dishes, no oven, no worktop, sink and certainly has no refrigerator, freezer or washing machine.

until the 19th century, the kitchen is a very smoky environment in which to operate as chimneys are common in many lower-class stanova.Pećnica or "range" has not yet been developed, so cooking is done around an open fire, the pot was suspended over the fire and spit for roasting meat in front of . Only with the advent of indoor range that the kitchen became a smoke free environment and began to resemble a modern kitchen with racks for crockery, cutlery and crockery.

The house is built with the water pipes feeding fresh water directly into the home and waste pipes feeding the wastewater into the sewage system permitted a modern kitchen to take shape. For the first time in its history became the kitchen clean and sanitary place in which food is prepared and the range has become more affordable, lower classes were able to take advantage of developments that were once available only to middle and upper classes.

as well as social standards of broadcast to more hygienic standards of living, the old wooded tops were replaced with Formica or granite work surfaces and around the range or oven kitchen wall tiles were added to make the space much easier to clean than the old bare walls. These advances caused the concept of designer kitchen and a scullery maids and cooks grew out of fashion, putting the center of the stage a housewife in her own kitchen.

These days we spend more money on our kitchen than any other room in the house. Since the current is entered into our homes, we had an insatiable appetite for kitchen appliances such as toaster, blender and food, of course, electric stove, refrigerator, freezer and washing machine. However, these devices were not enough to make our kitchens have been longing for identity.

Kitchen wall tiles have become more decorative than functional feature of the kitchen became a room in which to socialize, as well as food preparation. The old Formica or granite worktops and replaced with more fashionable marble or quartz worktops and everything to match. So much so that some rooms are adequate cutlery and crockery, proper containers, pans and utensils, and even a kitchen wall tiles matching granite worktops and quartz in some kitchens, and as tastes changed, so the entire kitchen.

These days it is not uncommon for one to receive a kitchen make over with new cabinet doors and drawers, new tiles and wall coverings, new flooring, new everything! The modern kitchen is the pride of every housewife (or husband) and the heart of every home .

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Vuvuzela Music



Vuvuzela, trumpet controversial World Cup soccer celebrations in South Africa, just a little toy horn, yet wielding the power of his vuvuzela like a storm; fans across the globe have been listening to the sound of one thousand vuvuzelas, on TV, internet and radio emission of each soccer game, and on the streets with the World Cup football stadiums since the World Cup fever began in June 2010.

Although at first glance, vuvuzela background noise during the game seems awkward, like the sound just before the bad thing happens in every film, you get used to it, it starts to sound like the Vuvuzela Orchestra, playing their music for vuvuzela the whole world to hear. I think that even and May be the future for all the Vuvuzela Orchestra if you are in the form. Some of the South African fans are truly hone your skills at playing crazy plastic horn if you close your eyes and imagine I can just hear them playing a Wavin 'Flag on vuvuzelas with those powerful African drums keeping time.

attempt to ban the horns of the stadiums in South Africa for World Cup football match is not successful, although obviously they have received thousands of complaints and a formal request to ban vuvuzela released. Can you imagine how even so, the authorities will go around the ban they really liked the horns? It's funny, really, that anyone who thinks for a moment that Bafana Bafana fan base ever, in a hundred years of struggle, give up their right to blow their hearts on their vuvuzela horns.

When I heard that their protest against the vuvuzela, I wondered how delusional world otišao.Afrička people will not be intimidated by the rest of the world and it gladdens my heart to see proof of this opet.Ljudi lived in South Africa under siege for generations, and finally rose to victory after decades of struggle against a great and indomitable apartheid vlade.Cijeli world witnessed the power of the African spirit to survive and then actually rise to power of the incredible odds, so it is no surprise to me that everyone thought they could tell South Africans who will not be allowed to play their own vuvuzelas at World Cup stadiums in their own streets. Madness!

I do not really enjoy the sound of so many thousands of vuvuzela players without interruption, but I absolutely love the sound of freedom and exercise of power to the African people, regardless of the setting, and even if the music was unrecognizable. Africans say GO! The game you crazy vuvuzelas in your hearts content and let the whole world to show their respect and admiration for the courage, diversity and strength.