cuisine

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

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