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
One or two of the rejects manage to scarf a fistful of food before flying headfirst out of the cookhouse.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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
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
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
The mess tents and cookhouses are about alike in all the arms of the service.
From Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by Trumbull White
