A shop or establishment where food is cooked and sold; a small restaurant or food vendor.
Compound of cook and shop, from Old English sceoppa. Cookshops were common in medieval and early modern Europe, especially in towns, providing prepared food for people without kitchen facilities.
The cookshop was the medieval ancestor of the modern fast-food restaurant—it served people (often workers, travelers, and the poor) who couldn't cook at home, and the word reminds us that convenient takeaway food is hardly a new idea.
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