cookhouse
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Rowan insists Duryea’s footprint is the same as before he bought it, saying the property, even in the old days, had a cookhouse where seafood was prepared and sold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
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
There were two field hands in the cookhouse.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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
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
Our energies at first were therefore concentrated on trying to make ourselves comfortable, and a considerable time was spent in carrying out improvements, making bathing arrangements, cookhouses, canteen and reading rooms.
From The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion by W. C. C. Weetman
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
They flaunt and forage in the Lines, they inspect the ashpits and cookhouses, they wheel and manoeuvre on the parades, but Slyboots sat serene upon his poker.
From Last Words A Final Collection of Stories by Hermann Dudley Murphy
