In the east wing, the former kitchen-dining area on the ground floor was recast as a large dining room, furnished with Florentine and Venetian painted furniture.
There was a different group of prisoners near a ruined building that Uzbek soldiers of the Northern Alliance said were the former kitchens.
In the cavernous former kitchen in the Palace of Diana, for example, cooks complain of the caprices of their masters, while upstairs, court members prepare for the hunt.
Backed up by her younger daughter, Deborah, Mrs. Gordon is everywhere at the Vanguard, taking reservations over a rotary telephone in the ancient former kitchen that serves as the office, monitoring deliveries and, once the music starts, shushing talkers.
She is traditionally said to have slept in the small former kitchen within the tower house, although it is more likely that she occupied larger accommodation in the relatively new east range.
The hotel's former kitchen now houses the excellent restaurant U Kucharzy.
Adjacent to this room is the breakfast room in the house's former kitchen.
Now the 44-year-old mother and former kitchen worker stood before the paramo, the cold and treeless Andean highlands that guarded her path toward Trujillo, Peru, more than 1,000 miles, where family awaited and where she hoped to find a job.
Muhammad Daoud, 22, stood in the rubble of his former kitchen, explaining that a bomb fell on his house one night about four weeks ago.
