culinary delight
- noun
- 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?
- 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
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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?
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"Instead of perfecting a handful of choice entrees, "the menu promises a myriad of culinary delights, but fails to properly deliver on any."
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No matter how old I get, always a culinary delight.
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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.
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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
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'.