
Samoa, United States
Samoa Cookhouse
The Samoa Cookhouse on California's North Coast operates as one of the last working lumber camp cookhouses in the American West, serving family-style meals at long communal tables in a cavernous dining hall that has fed mill workers and travelers alike for well over a century. The food is direct and plentiful, rooted in the tradition of feeding hungry laborers rather than satisfying gastronomes.



