Cuisine

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

cuisine
    n 1: the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so
         prepared [syn: {cuisine}, {culinary art}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Cuisine \Cui`sine"\ (kw?`z?n"), n. [F., fr. L. coquina kitchen,
   fr. coquere to cook. See {Kitchen}.]
   1. The kitchen or cooking department.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Manner or style of cooking.
      [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

66 Moby Thesaurus words for "cuisine":
      bakehouse, bakery, baking, barbecuing, basting, board, boiling,
      braising, bread, bread and butter, brewing, broil, broiling,
      caboose, camboose, catering, cheer, comestibles, cookery,
      cookhouse, cooking, cookroom, creature comfort, culinary science,
      daily bread, domestic science, eatables, edibles, fare, fast food,
      feast, food, food and drink, foodstuff, frying, galley, grilling,
      health food, home economics, ingesta, junk food, kitchen,
      kitchen stuff, kitchenette, meat, nutrition, pan-broiling,
      poaching, provender, provision, roasting, sauteing, scullery,
      searing, shirring, simmering, spread, steeping, stewing,
      sustenance, table, toasting, tucker, viands, victuals, vittles