The kitchens of Harrenhal are where food is prepared at the castle of Harrenhal.
Layout
Harrenhal's kitchens, which are as large as the Great Hall of Winterfell, are in a round stone building with a domed roof.[1] While much of the castle is in ruins, the kitchens are snug and clean.[2] Cooks and scullions sleep in cavernous lofts found above the ovens.[3]
Recent Events
A Clash of Kings
Hot Pie, once a baker in King's Landing, is assigned to the kitchens when he is brought to Harrenhal. Arya Stark, who has been assigned to aid Weese, tries to visit Hot Pie when she can. When Hot Pie tries to give Arya a hot apple tart on one occasion, he is seen by two cooks who take the tart and beat him with a spoon.[1]
The ever-hungry Ser Wylis Manderly often visits the kitchens during his captivity at Harrenhal.[1]
During the fall of Harrenhal, Arya, Jaqen H'ghar, Rorge, and Biter bring kettles of hot broth from the kitchens to the Widow's Tower. The conspirators then splash the boiling soup onto Lannister guards in the dungeon, allowing them to free captive northmen and rivermen.[3]
When Arya decides to flee Harrenhal in the night, she sends Gendry to the kitchens to get Hot Pie.[4]
A Feast for Crows
Ser Jaime Lannister sends Lady Shella Whent's cook—who had started the capture of Harrenhal from the Brave Companions by opening a postern gate to the Mountain's men—to the kitchens to prepare a hot meal for his column of troops.[5]
Quotes
The kitchens are snug and clean, and there's always a warm fire to sleep by and plenty to eat. You might have done well there, but I can see you're not a clever girl.[2]
—Amabel to Arya Stark
Hot Pie ate even better; he was where he belonged, in the kitchens, a round stone building with a domed roof that was a world unto itself.[1]
—thoughts of Arya Stark
Even in the black of night, the kitchens were never still; there was always someone rolling dough for the morning bread, stirring a kettle with a long wooden spoon, or butchering a hog for Ser Amory's breakfast bacon.[3]
—thoughts of Arya Stark
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 30, Arya VII.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 26, Arya VI.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 47, Arya IX.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 64, Arya X.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 27, Jaime III.