5/22/2023 0 Comments Overlook hotel stephen king![]() ![]() “There were more wonders in the cold-pantry. They would sit up here in this deserted grand hotel, eating the food that had been left them like creatures in a fairy tale and listening to the bitter wind around their snowbound eaves.” The food supplies amazed her but did not reassure her as much as she might have thought: the Donner Party kept recurring to her, not with thoughts of cannibalism (with all this food it would indeed be a long time before they were reduced to such poor rations as each other), but with the reinforced idea that this was indeed a serious business: when snow fell, getting out of here would not be a matter of an hour’s drive to Sidewinder but a major operation. ![]() ![]() “For the next ten minutes Hallorann opened bins and doors, disclosing food in such amounts as Wendy had never seen before. “We got a cold-pantry, a walk-in freezer, all sorts of vegetable bins, and two refrigerators. “You three folks could eat up here for a year, I guess,” Hallorann said. ![]() Dick Hallorann is leaving for sunny Florida and he shows them through the kitchen and pantry before he leaves. Jack, Wendy, and their child Danny Torrance get a tour of the well-stocked pantry that will feed them over the winter while they are snowbound at the malevolent hotel. We are introduced to the Overlook hotel’s pantry in the Chapter 10 of Stephen King’s book The Shining by the hotel’s cook, Dick Hallorann. The fictional Overlook Hotel has a pantry we wouldn’t want to tour in person, even if we could. ![]()
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