delicacy

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delicacy

1. Délice. friandise.
   • The bulbous roots, which look like brown radishes, are rich in sugar and starch and have a distinctly sweet, tangy flavor that has made them a delicacy in the high Andean plateau region of Peru and Bolivia. Maca roots are usually roasted or boiled in milk or water to form a sort of gruel [...] — (Noel Vietmeyer, article « Forgotten Roots of the Incas », page 100], dans Chilies to Chocolate: Food the Americas Gave the World (publié par Nelson Foster et Linda S. Cordell). University of Arizona Press; 1992.)
2. (Cuisine) Spécialité culinaire.
   • Such expectations reflected their clear choice between two kinds of Chinese food that were made available to them: the simple and inexpensive dishes like chop suey, and China’s haute cuisine featuring delicacies like shark’s fins. — (Yong Chen, Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America, page 126. Columbia University Press, 2014.)
   • The captain of the Titanic was from Stoke-on-Trent, a city of six towns where the local delicacy is the oatcake. — (Article « We Are Stoke-on-Trent: What links the Titanic and oatcakes? ». BBC News, 28 septembre 2019.)
3. Délicatesse.
   • But, I say we are all liable to mistakes and I should feel sensible of your delicacy, and grateful for it, if you would spare me these references to Harthouse. — (Charles Dickens, Hard Times – For These Times (Les Temps difficiles), Book the Third, Chapter III: Very Decided . Bradbury & Ecans, 1854.)

• finesse (finesse en français)

• delicatessen (traiteur)

• delicate (délicat)

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