"[A]s the nation urbanized, its city-dwelling inhabitants had few opportunities to grow or collect anything of their own and lost all access to non-market edibles. Their homes were also smaller, with tiny or non-existent kitchens, and little storage space to allow families to carry out their own food processing, as they had done with seasonal produce in the past."
David Fouser, The Global Staff of Life: Wheat, Flour and Bread in Britain, 1846-1914 (PhD Thesis)