diet kitchen

American  

noun

1. a kitchen, as in a hospital, where special food is prepared for those requiring it.

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Etymology

Origin of diet kitchen

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70

Example Sentences

WACs and Army nurses prepared baby formulas in a special diet kitchen.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has a beautiful new collar and medal, lives in the diet kitchen, and is taken out to walk by the nurses, and best of all is allowed to see his master every day.

From 'My Beloved Poilus' by Warner, Agnes

I put a kettle against the electric bell that rings in the chef's room so it would keep on ringing and went on into the diet kitchen.

From Where There's a Will by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

Say," she said, "the chef's getting fussy about the stuff I'm using in the diet kitchen.

From Where There's a Will by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

The diet kitchen is under the care of Miss Rich, who, with her assistants, was busy preparing delicacies of various kinds, for two hundred patients who were not able to go to the convalescent's table.

From Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience by Bellows, Henry W.