The Black Kitchen, Jindřichův Hradec zámek

The Black Kitchen is the best preserved historic kitchen of Bohemian Nobility. It was built during the reign of Jinrich IV of Hradec (1463-1507), the High Chancellor and Burgrave of the Bohemian Kingdom. It has a high barrel vault with four opening for the escape of smoke up the chimneys.
As with the Czech Foodies, the Bohemian nobility loved high quality food, as it was a status of wealth and superiority (well we reinterpret this as 'everyone has a right to delicious food'!). This was a state of the art kitchen when it was built <1500. It is still used during special festivals at the Castle, particularly around Christmas time.

This made us want to go home and start cooking authentic Czech food right away!