Where do you keep your food?

I was looking up "scullery," and I found this fascinating The Servant’s Quarters in 19th Century Country Houses. It includes a discussion of pantries, sculleries, larders, and more. It mentions a Scottish scullery maid "who described her job as slave labor."

I remember seeing meat safes in older houses, too. When I first saw one as a child I had to ask what it was for. Back then pantries were separate rooms with shelves up the walls.
More modern houses started doing without these and larger, floor-to-ceiling kitchen cupboards then became known as pantries to the point where corner ones with bi-folding doors that you can take a whole step into are now known as walk-in pantries. Now many larger new houses are going back to having butler's pantries.
I do recall hearing people refer to pantries as larders in my childhood and this often had to do with where in the UK a particular family or their forebears had come from. If memory serves, these people also called a laundry a wash-house.

This may be just my usage but I have a tendency to call kitchen wall units i.e. overhead ones, cupboards, but underbench ones (which sit on the floor) cabinets. However this is not an absolute and I occasionally will use one for the other.

#60 - interesting link Nutrax, and one that led me to wasting a good hour following similar ones from there. Was the word 'scullery' unfamiliar to you, or at least unusual for you?

I don't think that "scullery" is a word one sees very often in the United States.

I have no idea what a "scullery" is; I think that it must be some room near the kitchen in a large house, perhaps where the silver is cleaned or the pots are washed. If I see the term "scullery maid" I think of a young woman with some kitchen-related duties, but I don't know what they would be.

My grandparents' house wasn't large, it was a medium-sized two-storied terraced house. The kitchen just had a very large and impressive cooker made of what looked like cast iron, with metal doors with locks on them for the various roasting compartments, and a kitchen table, and I think maybe the food presses were there as well. Then there was a narrow room of it, jutting out of the back of the house, where there was the sink and the dishes. I couldn't swear to it that I ever heard anyone call it the scullery. Maybe I just applied that name to it in my head as a child, but I don't think so.

This could go on for some time! After all this discussion I couldn't help but notice in Nutraxs link one of the house plans had a kitchen, scullery, pantry AND larder!! I would imagine it would be:
kitchen for cooking
scullery for washing up, probably the only one with a water supply, or water brought in from outside
pantry for dry goods
larder for fresh food, hams, cheeses etc.

I had heard the word "scullery" before, but I can't say I'e ever seen one.

An architect wroe about the Governor's Palace in Colonial Williamsburg (Virginia, US). The early 18th C. scullery was an outbuilding.
>the Scullery was used for the "sloppier" side of the kitchen department: salting and preserving, tallow and soap making, etc., relieving the kitchen of a multitude of space-taking tasks and leaving it freer for the definite purpose of preparing the food.

nutrax, And a "scullery maid" was at the absolute bottom of the servant staff, often a retarded girl who was allowed to sleep on the kitchen floor next to the stove. Here in México the Spanish word for a scullery maid – pinche – has become an often used adjective meaning "worthless". However, in Spain the word has become elevated to mean "assistant" and you will find "pinches" in nearly any trade.

Iceboxes and Icemen are more common here in Cambodia than fridges. I do remember having a wash house, which was a small room at the back of the house, with a drain.