Cuisine vs. Delicacy

Cuisinenoun

A characteristic style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin.

Cuisinenoun

A kitchen or cooking department.

Cuisinenoun

The kitchen or cooking department.

Cuisinenoun

Manner or style of cooking.

Cuisinenoun

the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared

Cuisine

A cuisine is a style of cooking characterized by distinctive ingredients, techniques and dishes, and usually associated with a specific culture or geographic region. Regional food preparation traditions, customs and ingredients often combine to create dishes unique to a particular region.A cuisine is primarily influenced by the ingredients that are available locally or through trade, they can even be made into distinct ingredients themselves when they become popular within a region, take for example Japanese rice in Japanese cuisine and New Mexico chile in New Mexican cuisine.

Delicacynoun

The quality of being delicate.

Delicacynoun

Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement -a Chinese delicacy

Delicacynoun

Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.

Delicacynoun

Frailty of health or fitness.

Delicacynoun

Refinement in taste or discrimination.

Delicacynoun

Tact and propriety; the need for such tact.

Delicacynoun

The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.

Delicacynoun

Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame.

Delicacynoun

Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action.

Delicacynoun

Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment.

Delicacynoun

Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy.

Delicacynoun

The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance.

Delicacynoun

That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table.

Delicacynoun

Pleasure; gratification; delight.

Delicacynoun

the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance;

Delicacynoun

something considered choice to eat

Delicacynoun

refined taste; tact

Delicacynoun

smallness of stature

Delicacynoun

lack of physical strength

Delicacynoun

subtly skillful handling of a situation

Delicacynoun

lightness in movement or manner

Delicacy

A delicacy is usually a rare or expensive food item that is considered highly desirable, sophisticated or peculiarly distinctive, within a given culture. Irrespective of local preferences, such a label is typically pervasive throughout a region.