summer kitchen

noun

1. an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.

Word History and Origins

Origin of summer kitchen¹

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

Example Sentences

Both Cathy Whims, in her excellent new cookbook "The Italian Summer Kitchen," and New York Times columnist Martha Rose Shulman recommend blanching basil before blending to preserve its vibrant color.

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Across the courtyard, the log cabin has a bathroom and a summer kitchen.

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Now they all live in an out-house that used to be the family's "summer kitchen".

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I couldn't wait to turn it into a summer kitchen.

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Beside Hercules’s childhood home in Ukraine stood a one-room litnya kuhnia, a breezy “summer kitchen” where the season’s work of pickling and preserving took place.

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