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

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diet kitchen

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Mary Roberts Rinehart

I'm on the water-wagon and the diet kitchen.

From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes

Any salt unused is returned to the diet kitchen, where it is weighed and the amount used is indicated on the chart.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit

She was the first person to conceive the idea of a diet kitchen for the needy.

From A Portrait of Old George Town by Grace Dunlop Peter