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

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

These are some of the things I have done since I joined up with that diet kitchen outfit.

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

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.

“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.