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

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Example Sentences

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diet kitchen

WACs and Army nurses prepared baby formulas in a special diet kitchen.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Mary Roberts Rinehart

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 Henry W. Bellows

After the fair, a special diet kitchen on a grand scale was established and supplied with all necessary appliances by the Pittsburg Branch.

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

In the race for Richmond which followed, Miss Barton's train was hospital and diet kitchen to the Ninth Corps, and much of the time for the other Corps also.

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

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