Last Tango kitchen culture
Like many viewers of the Last Tango in Halifax on the BBC, I cannot help noticing the extent to which kitchens feature in this series, almost to the point of being characters in their own right. In the complicated lives of the two leads Gillian and Caroline, the kitchen is the social hub for their large extended families. Gillian’s is a ‘4D’ family – four generations sharing the space – and Caroline’s a fine example of the ‘blended’ family that includes steps and exes. Both t