The Kitchen Table.

The kitchen.  The heart of the house.  Frequently used for cooking, more often used as the central meeting place.  If it's an important conversation, it takes place in the kitchen.  Good news, bad news...it's all delivered around the kitchen table.  Family meetings, family meals, family visits.  If you want to know what's going on, hang out in the kitchen.  Or just sit in the living room, smiling as everyone else congrgates around the table.