cookhouse
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cookhouses
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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
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
Mr. Choi, known as Chef King Biryong on screen, said his stint in the cookhouse when he was in the army inspired his shtick, but he feels he also has an emotional bond with viewers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2014
I took some cookhouse advice that I’d once heard Luke give to Nigel.
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 mess tents and cookhouses are about alike in all the arms of the service.
From Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by Trumbull White
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 Alice B. Emerson
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 Hugh Dalton, Baron Dalton
Our energies at first were therefore concentrated on trying to make ourselves comfortable, and a considerable time was spent in carrying out improvements, making bathing arrangements, cookhouses, canteen and reading rooms.
From The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion by W. C. C. Weetman
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