cookhouse
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With its faded red-shingle siding, the Samoa Cookhouse, which opened in 1893, is the last surviving lumberjack camp-style cookhouse in the Western U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2022
A video of a captured Russian army cookhouse gives an unappetising glimpse of the meals served to troops.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2022
Etcheverry and his 18 or so employees met for lunch in a dining room at the ranch’s cookhouse.
From Washington Times ● May 7, 2016
Mr. Choi, known as Chef King Biryong on screen, said his stint in the cookhouse when he was in the army inspired his shtick, but he feels he also has an emotional bond with viewers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2014
August no longer comes to the cookhouse for meals, so I sit conspicuously alone at our table.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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In Australia, Chinese takeaways date back to the 1850s, when Chinese cookhouses and greengrocers provided for gold miners in remote parts of the country.
From Salon ● May 30, 2023
It was a low, broad verandahed house, covering a good deal of ground, with cookhouses and other outbuildings in the rear, and a big corral for the stock, and bunkhouses for the men.
From Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch Schoolgirls Among Cowboys by Alice B. Emerson
There were no fires, no cookhouses, only tents without floorboards.
From The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) by C. R. M. F. (Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser) Cruttwell
Into the cookhouses, whence cutlery had vanished, crowded old men in bowlers and bonneted old women, whose bony fingers clutched convulsively at plates of leavings.
From Tales of the Wilderness by Boris Pilniak
But day schools were not intended for lodging purposes, and here again was displayed Major Martin's skill in the erection of cookhouses and more wash-tubs and other domestic essentials.
From The Fifth Leicestershire A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During The War, 1914-1919. by John David Hills