cookhouse
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With its faded red-shingle siding, the Samoa Cookhouse, which opened in 1893, is the last surviving lumberjack camp-style cookhouse in the Western U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2022
A video of a captured Russian army cookhouse gives an unappetising glimpse of the meals served to troops.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2022
An 11-mile drive up a scenic valley brings you to the Ashcroft Adventure Lodge, from where you snowshoe, cross-country ski or take a horse-drawn sleigh the final 1.3 miles to the cookhouse.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2018
Etcheverry and his 18 or so employees met for lunch in a dining room at the ranch’s cookhouse.
From Washington Times ● May 7, 2016
On the fourth day, Kevin caught me on my way out to the cookhouse and took me to the oak tree again.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
In Australia, Chinese takeaways date back to the 1850s, when Chinese cookhouses and greengrocers provided for gold miners in remote parts of the country.
From Salon ● May 30, 2023
The village had been much shelled, first by Italian and then by Austrian guns, and there was not a house remaining undamaged, though several had been patched up as billets and cookhouses by British troops.
From With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement by Dalton, Hugh Dalton, Baron
They flaunt and forage in the Lines, they inspect the ashpits and cookhouses, they wheel and manoeuvre on the parades, but Slyboots sat serene upon his poker.
From Last Words A Final Collection of Stories by Murphy, Hermann Dudley
But day schools were not intended for lodging purposes, and here again was displayed Major Martin's skill in the erection of cookhouses and more wash-tubs and other domestic essentials.
From The Fifth Leicestershire A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During The War, 1914-1919. by Hills, John David
It was a low, broad verandahed house, covering a good deal of ground, with cookhouses and other outbuildings in the rear, and a big corral for the stock, and bunkhouses for the men.
From Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch Schoolgirls Among Cowboys by Emerson, Alice B.
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