In the book Culture Architecture and Design, Rapoport explains the importance of regionalism to design using cuisine as an example. The author discusses a case study of a Puerto Rican immigrant in New York who did a redesign of tenement apartments based on architectural criteria. Since the apartments were small, efficiency kitchens were used. The activities involved were then analyzed. In this case, cooking was said to be a performance which helped establish status. “Kitchens needed to be large because of a specific way of cooking in front of female guests establishes female status and hierarchies”. “The initial design of an efficiency kitchen was totally inappropriate and an expression of Anglo-American culture where food magically appears
