Crossword-Solution: CULINA 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

More than once I saw love in her look, in her face; and, wilt thou believe me? among those simple people then in that poor chamber, which was at once a culina and a triclinium, I felt happier than ever before.

Comfort and convenience united to take the cooking out of the atrium (which then became a reception-room) into a separate apartment known as the _culina_, or kitchen, in which was a raised platform on which coals might be burned and the processes of broiling, boiling, and roasting might be carried on in a primitive manner, much like the arrangement still to be seen at Rome.

Atqui vix eramus ingressi, cum video ignoto illi iuveni in culina vinum in vitro appositum, eo colore ut mihi gratularer.

HUNTER’S “_Culina_,” who says it is a secret worth knowing: we agree with him, and so tell it here, with a little addition, which we think renders it a still more gratifying communication.

The word is derived from COQUERE, to cook, which seems to be an imitation of the sound, produced by a bubbling mess The cook's work place (formerly ATRIUM, the "black" smoky room) was the CULINA, the kitchen, hence in the modern Romance tongues CUISINE, CUCINA, COCINA.