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

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 Proudfit, Fairfax T.

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.

You are going to get over it, even if you have to live for weeks on "Nuttolene" or other products of the diet kitchen.

From Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Street, Julian

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

From A Portrait of Old George Town by Peter, Grace Dunlop