I just re-read this thread. Fruit cellar????? My grandmother was a German immigrant and we had a fruit cellar. She canned and cooked in the basement of our house in Detroit and we even had a little kitchen down there because there was no air conditioning those days. She even made her own ketchup. We had an old gas stove on legs and a farm table from her farm when Detroit was still rural. Too bad you are not here in the states. All of you could come see our old old Queen Anne!! Our next-door neighboor has secret rooms in hers!