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

I went back for some, and when I got as far as the diet kitchen again Doctor Barnes was there, just inside the door.

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

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

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

“Mercy on us, Heavy!” expostulated Helen, “just because you work in a diet kitchen, don’t think that the only thing people want when they are sick is something to eat.”

From Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils by Emerson, Alice B.