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Nearby is the cookhouse, an open-air pavilion with a gas grill and wood-burning pizza oven.—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 11 Sep. 2024 While a few men stood guard, scanning the forest edges, others moved through the tents and a cookhouse area, searching for anything that might provide a clue to who controls the mines.—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024 Behind it, Spanish lime and gumbo limbo trees shade a cookhouse in the garden, a tranquil spot just steps from Duval, which was teeming with passengers from the giant Carnival Glory cruise ship.—Elaine Glusac, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2024 Under the canopy of a koa tree, in an open-air cookhouse built of lava rocks gathered from the eruption of Mauna Loa in 1855, sit a scuba instructor, a lawyer, several retirees, and their children and grandchildren.—Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023 The cookhouse will offer the same services with the addition of gray water dumping.—Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023 That metaphorical cookhouse is 300 feet away.—David Beard, Car and Driver, 5 Feb. 2021 Come nightfall, everyone eats at the cookhouse and sleeps in the bunkhouse (or a cabin!).—Jami Supsic, Country Living, 11 Sep. 2022 At a remote shoreline site at Lake Nerka, a log cabin erected in 1949 is surrounded by more than a half-dozen other structures, including bunkhouses and a cookhouse near a garden patch of arugula and rhubarb.—Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2022
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