"high cuisine" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe high-quality or refined cuisine, often associated with upscale dining establishments or experienced and skilled chefs. Example: The restaurant's reputation for high cuisine attracted food critics from all over the country.
The only world in which she acknowledged encountering sexism was that of high cuisine.
There is no hamburger on the menu to please those for whom a hamburger now counts as high cuisine.
But the pairing of high cuisine and indie rock also reflects, to a degree, the genre's changing cultural cachet.
If it wasn't high cuisine, it was fun, delicious and another sign that food in the United States may be making a comeback.
Along the Mekong, both village food and high cuisine revolve around fish, which is eaten in all shapes and sizes from small fry to huge catfish.
While I would probably no longer eat such a delicacy, my sister (name withheld) would probably not even admit to having partaken with me in such high cuisine.
Later, I enrolled as a trainee chef at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine, which I suppose was the beginning of my serious apprenticeship.
"Apart from the panda," says Professor Du Li of the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine, "nothing is more important to the Sichuanese than food.
(Norton, $35). This British author was the first Westerner to attend the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine, and in the aftermath she produced a trio of impressive cookbooks.
Together they turned Gordon Ramsay into a global brand synonymous with the highest cuisine and expletive-strewn kitchens but the fiery 12-year relationship between the chef and the father-in-law who masterminded his business empire has finally gone off the boil.
She became the first - and only - Westerner to be a full-time student at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine and, finding there was more hostility to her sex than to her foreign origins, began the slow business of learning to think like a Chinese.
