An early 20th century camp wagon portable pantry is the Victorian version of the modern travel trailer and motor home. American interest in recreational camping, and
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The Gilded Age kitchen and pantry of Elm Court has been updated but retains all of its original character. At the time of this post Elm
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The fictional Overlook Hotel has a pantry we wouldn’t want to tour in person, even if we could. We are introduced to the Overlook hotel’s pantry
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Eula McClary spent ten days as a guest of the Atlantic fleet on an American battleship in 1917. She wrote about meal preparation and food storage
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Cardinal Wolsey’s pantry and kitchen at Cardinal College (now known as Christ Church College, Oxford) date back to 1525. They were built when he was one
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Emily Dickinson’s cousin Louise Norcross describes Emily writing in the pantry. “And I know that Emily Dickinson wrote most emphatic things in the pantry, so cool
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Brambly Hedge books, written and illustrated by Jill Barklem, feature the intricate world of the Brambly Hedge mice. Rooms are carved out of tree trunks and
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Pantry descriptions from the Wind in The Willows, written by Kenneth Grahame, and published in 1908. Mole, Ratty, Mr. Toad, and Mr. Badger’s pantry descriptions are
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What kind of traveling pantry holds enough food and gear to travel across the American west on cattle drives? That would be a cowboy pantry, also
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The pantry in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s book By The Shores of Silver Lake sustained the Ingalls family during the winter of 1879-1880. Laura Ingalls Wilder and
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What did the Wright brothers cook from their extremely well-organized pantry? The Wright brothers spent months, from late August to December of 1901, 1902, and 1903,
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The most fantastic fictional farmhouse pantry is found in Jude Deveraux’s The Mulberry Tree. The pantry is key to the plot in the book, and she
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The Green Gables pantry is almost as memorable as Anne, the heroine of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables books. In the Anne of Green Gables
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This long-lost pantry cupboard was preservation-worthy. Is it truly gone, or was it salvaged? The Kingsley-Cole house of Rome, New York, was built in the 1840’s
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Alexander and the Magic Mouse is a wonderful children’s storybook about a fabulous Victorian house, the elderly lady that lives there with an alligator, a yak,
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A hobbit pantry (or two) is something to aspire to. Our favorite parts of J.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (published in 1937) are reading about the food
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High on our list of favorite book pantries is Laura Ingalls Wilder’s 1932 book Little House in the Big Woods. Our favorite parts of Little House
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So what is a butler’s pantry? What’s the difference between a pantry and a larder? Here’s a pantry storage glossary that explains not only how a
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