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

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

From Washington Post

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

From BBC

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

From Salon

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.

From Washington Post

While the size of the summer kitchen staff was similar to previous years, the number of meals produced more than doubled, from about 180,000 to more than 420,000 every day.

From New York Times