My experience as a non-drinker is that there seem to be less drunks in the kitchen. It is where I go when I can no longer stand being around drunk people.

I've never really thought about it, but yeah, that seems to be true.

The only thing I can think of to account for it is that we evolve with some kind of reaction where we become mentally stimulated within the proximity of food.

That had become so common with us that when we rebuilt our house we made the kitchen the largest and nicest room. The house has a odd layout and there are 2 doors from the deck. One to the sunroom and the other to the kitchen. Same story, most discussions are in the kitchen (where the food is). I just had a couple of Japanese visitors who I have not seen for years. Again, the kitchen.

At parties, I love finding an intelligent and amusing person. In a quiet corner, we enjoy deep conversation, laughter and witty banter. Delightful.

I prefer this to vapid chatter.

Because Thinker’s avoid petty party games.. thus congregate with their own, in the kitchen

Food and booze is in the kitchen, so people visit while indulging.

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The basin acts as a parabolic mirror, collecting all the best ideas among party-goers and conversation going on elsewhere, then reflects them in concentrated form into the brains of people in the kitchen rather like the parabolic mirror of a reflector telescope collects light and then projects it into the lens of the eyepiece. Obvious, really.

The bar is usually in the kitchen! Yes that’s my experience, and I used to be a real party animal!!