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

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

A nurse should obtain this training during her course in the hospital, through the class room, the wards and the diet kitchen.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.

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

Miss Adams, though surrounded with difficulties, and finding the surgeons indifferent if not hostile, succeeded in establishing a special diet kitchen, like that at Benton Barracks' Hospital.

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