page_title: Pantry
section_title: Late Middle Ages
hierarchical_section_title: Pantry / History in Europe and United States / Late Middle Ages
caption_attribution_description: Català: Museu Romàntic Can Papiol (Vilanova i la Geltrú) This is a photo of a building indexed in the Catalan heritage register as Bé Cultural d'Interès Local (BCIL) under the reference IPA-11998.
context_page_description: A pantry is a room where beverages, food, and sometimes dishes, household cleaning chemicals, linens, or provisions are stored. Food and beverage pantries serve in an ancillary capacity to the kitchen. The word "pantry" derives from the same source as the Old French term paneterie; that is from pain, the French form of the Latin panis, "bread".
context_section_description: In a late medieval hall, there were separate rooms for the various service functions and food storage. A pantry was where bread was kept and food preparation associated with it was done. The head of the office responsible for this room was referred to as a pantler. There were similar rooms for storage of bacon and other meats (larder), alcoholic beverages (buttery) (known for the "butts" of barrels stored there), and cooking (kitchen).
caption: Nineteenth-century pantry in Museu Romàntic Can Papiol in Vilanova i la Geltrú
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