culinary art

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culinary art - the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared cuisine cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" dim sum - traditional Chinese cuisine; a variety of foods (including several kinds of steamed or fried dumplings) are served successively in small portions haute cuisine - (French) an elaborate and skillful manner of preparing food nouvelle cuisine - a school of French cooking that uses light sauces and tries to bring out the natural flavors of foods instead of making heavy use of butter and cream rechauffe - warmed leftovers gastronomy - a particular style of cookery (as of a region); "New England gastronomy"