Citations:kitchen supper

English citations of kitchen supper

Noun: "The evening meal for household staff"

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• 1854, Annie Elnidge, "A Tale for Parents", The Anglo-American magazine, volume 4, page 416

  They did not often, I believe, eat in company with their dependents, but they keep up the old custom of being present at the kitchen supper in order to see that every one was properly served, and behaved with due decorum.

• 1869, uncredited, "Consenting Unto Sin", People's Magazine, volume 4, issue 19, page 63

  "Well cook, you ain't often caught in the wrong, I'll say that; and if you makes your place pay you well, you know how to put good food on our table as well as the master's. What shall I set for the kitchen supper to-night? it's most time I got it ready."

• 1903, Frank Norris and O. Henry, Everybody's Magazine, volume 2, page 365

  Between her and her employer would never arise the questions of inadequate bedroom accommodation, of the use of the bathtub, of kitchen suppers, of company — of all those privileges which housekeepers cannot or will not grant yet which the domestic worker should share with other wage-earners.

• 1918, Ethel Alex-Tweedy, Women and Soldiers, page 145

  Hence the housekeeper has not only to think over and order breakfast for five, but a midday meal for the domestic region, with evening dinner for the husband and kitchen supper for the maids.

Noun: "An informal meal served for guests"

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• 1984, Nicholas Wapshott, Peter O'Toole: A Biography, page 171

  He entertained a very small number of people — the closest of close friends — to kitchen suppers in his glorious cottage which he was finishing with his own hands.

• 1999, Alison Becker Hurt, Kitchen Suppers, back cover

  Kitchen suppers are meals that sometimes—but don't have to—take place in the kitchen. Always cooked with ease and love, they can be shared with family and friends—or sometimes eaten by yourself.

• 2003, Sheryl Julian, Julie Riven, The Way We Cook: Recipes from the New American Kitchen, pages 206–207:

  Our notion of a simmering pot is a satisfying stewlike meal that cooks slowly, either on top of the stove or in the oven, and is meant to be served family-style — right from the pot. We think of these as kitchen suppers, though many are nice enough to go out to the dining room and a tableful of guests.

• 2008, Julian Fellowes, Past Imperfect, →ISBN, page 82:

  I saw the couple for a bit after that, kitchen suppers with other girls like her and boys like me, but long before the Sloane Ranger Handbook had given that tribe a name and an identity.

• 2012 March 30, Owen Jones, “We're now governed by the political wing of the wealthy”, in The Independent‎^[1]:

  But it goes a lot deeper than the distance between the well-bred kitchen-supper eating Conservatives and the pasty-eating masses.

• 2012 April 1, Toby Helm, “Pasties and petrol rob David Cameron of the common touch”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

  Maude blithely described the donations scandal as "a bit of nonsense" and suggested there was nothing odd about the PM having "kitchen supper" with wealthy supporters.