"poor cuisine" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe food or cooking that is of low quality or lacking in flavor. Example: "I was disappointed by the poor cuisine at the new restaurant. The dishes were bland and poorly cooked."
Her scepticism about the recent nostalgia for cucina povera ("poor cuisine") is sane and refreshing.
The story is well known, and Kate Colquhoun tells it well in "Taste". But because Colquhoun is a writer of lively detail rather than argument — you might say her book is too busy stuffing its face, one course after another, to pause for conversation — the question of why Britain developed such a poor cuisine is never fully addressed.
But because Colquhoun is a writer of lively detail rather than argument — you might say her book is too busy stuffing its face, one course after another, to pause for conversation — the question of why Britain developed such a poor cuisine is never fully addressed.
The wine bar's owner, like his hero, is fighting his own battle against globalisation and poor cuisine.On the other side of the country, in King County, Washington, elected officials are joining the cause, firing off memos denouncing globalisation for ruining the environment and encouraging child labour.
"When you're invited for dinner, make fun of the poor American cuisine, the cheap Woolworth knives, the poor table manners of the Americans who even cut their potatoes with a knife," one went.
This culinary renaissance celebrated the foods of Southern grandmothers, dishes that formed the backbone of the "rural, indigenous, pork-based, corn-heavy, poor Southern cuisine" that sustained an impoverished region after the Civil War, says R.W. Apple, an associate editor of The New York Times who writes frequently on culinary matters.
-Third, NASA helped perfect and smallify the microwave oven, which basically created the entire concept of contemporary poor-people cuisine (same with velcro and dumb-people shoe culture).
He writes with equal passion about the "poor man's cuisine": "When I eat, I like to feel Marseilles pulsating beneath my tongue".
Food rationing policies, imposed by the British government during wartime periods of the 20th century, are said to have been the stimulus for British cuisine's poor international reputation.
It is the rich cuisine of a poor people.
"Oh!" she exclaimed, "that's la cucina povera!" The cuisine of the poor.
