Kitchening

There is a large open fireplace, and a good front piazza, to feet by 30, with a smaller porch in the rear, and an enclosed shed, for purposes of light kitchening.

Those that are stewed or boiled often betray in their unsatisfactory savor a lack of completeness in the kitchening process — beans, beets, corn, cauliflower, tomatoes, etc., usually exhibiting this defect — and thus is loaded on the digestive function a burden that normal cooking could never impose.

[…] the rains came and plastered it all to one constituent whole so that when you had to cut through for a door or stair you'd have to quarry like on the flank of the mountain whence they came — and once quarried and cut, you enter through the main door and you see to the left and to the right, rooms, apartments, corridors that connect one household with the other, and where birth, festivities, and kitchenings took place, and so floor after floor to the rooms of the elders, and further still to the rooms of worship, of Krishna, the Lord, and of Devi, the Benign Goddess, and since stone could no more bear on stone, the last floor was made of delicate fine, chiselled woodwork, […]

She did every single grocery list in this book, kept her copy-editor eyeball on the recipes, and coordinated the test kitchening.

A pinch of salt was a basic kitchening, but a good meal offered that plus a drink and a bit of something else - the "sup" and the "bit."