Wait — where do I put the flour again?
They say that siblings can always find their way around each others’ kitchens. I could go to my brother’s kitchen, for instance, and intuitively know where he keeps his knives, his plates, his colander.
The theory, and it makes sense to me, is that we tend to set up our kitchens in a way that is familiar to us. That is, we unconsciously mimic the kitchens that we grew up with. When it comes to kitchen placement, our parents’ influence extends beyond mere DNA.
