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

At White House, she took charge of the low diet kitchen for the whole Sixth Corps, to which her division had been transferred.

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

It includes a gymnasium, a crêche and a diet kitchen, and supports classes, lectures and concerts.

From The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns, Cities and Country Passed Through Between New York and Chicago Via the New York Central Lines. Based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. by New York Central Railroad Company

We bumped through the diet kitchen and into the scullery, when we found we had no matches.

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

In the race for Richmond which followed, Miss Barton's train was hospital and diet kitchen to the Ninth Corps, and much of the time for the other Corps also.

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