Kitchens, Smokehouses, and PriviesIn Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies, Michael Olmert takes us into the eighteenth century backyards of colonial America. He explores the many small outbuildings that can still be found at obscure rural farmsteads throughout the Tidewater and greater mid Atlantic, in towns like Williamsburg and Annapolis, and at elite plantations such as Mount Vernon and Monticello. These structures were designed to support the performance of a single task: cooking