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culinary delight

culinary delight

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A very tasty dish that people enjoy eating
  • noun
translation icon : delicia culinaria
  • Besides being a culinary delight and a stunning garden.

Do you ever find yourself craving the culinary delights of your favorite local restaurant, but time and energy constraints make it seem out of reach?

Examples

  • Do you ever find yourself craving the culinary delights of your favorite local restaurant, but time and energy constraints make it seem out of reach?

  • "Instead of perfecting a handful of choice entrees, "the menu promises a myriad of culinary delights, but fails to properly deliver on any."

  • No matter how old I get, always a culinary delight.

  • Our final breakfast at the inn was another culinary delight.

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  • Another culinary delight from those days: The Cheese Frenchee.

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  • Here they are preparing many culinary delights of the Southwest.

  • The fork is from the kitchen, where dead things metamorphose into culinary delights.

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  • In keeping with the theme, guests dined on culinary delights from five of Tom Colicchio's restaurants.

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  • Paul Elverstone said at 2012-11-14T15:49:47+0000: As an Englishman, I can say out loud that there aren't so many culinary delights that we get right.

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  • The chef presented a stunning culinary delight that left all the guests raving about the meal.

Surface Forms

Morphology

culinary + delight

The meaning 'a dish or food that is extremely enjoyable to eat' is directly and compositionaly derived from 'culinary' (related to cooking) + 'delight' (a source of great pleasure). This adjective+noun pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the intended meaning.

Etymology

Culinary delight combines culinary, a word for the kitchen and cooking, and delight, meaning great pleasure. Imagine a small, perfect dish made in the kitchen that makes you very happy to eat, and that's why the phrase means 'a dish that is extremely enjoyable to eat'.