Cuisine vs. Kitchen — What's the Difference?

A cuisine is a style of cooking characterized by distinctive ingredients, techniques and dishes, and usually associated with a specific culture or geographic region. Regional food preparation traditions, customs and ingredients often combine to create dishes unique to a particular region.A cuisine is primarily influenced by the ingredients that are available locally or through trade, they can even be made into distinct ingredients themselves when they become popular within a region, take for example Japanese rice in Japanese cuisine and New Mexico chile in New Mexican cuisine.

A kitchen is a room or part of a room used for cooking and food preparation in a dwelling or in a commercial establishment. A modern middle-class residential kitchen is typically equipped with a stove, a sink with hot and cold running water, a refrigerator, and worktops and kitchen cabinets arranged according to a modular design.

A characteristic manner or style of preparing food

A room or an area equipped for preparing and cooking food.

Food; fare.

A style of cooking; cuisine

A characteristic style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin.

A staff that prepares, cooks, and serves food.

(uncountable) culinary art: The art of preparing food, generally.

A room or area for preparing food.

A kitchen or cooking department.

(by extension) Cuisine; style of cooking.

The kitchen or cooking department.

The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.

Manner or style of cooking.

(music) The percussion section of an orchestra.

The practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared

(dated) A utensil for roasting meat.

(attributive) A domesticated or uneducated form of a language.

(slang) A public gaming room in a casino.

(obsolete) Anything eaten as a relish with bread, potatoes, etc.; a condiment.

The region of a billiard table between the head rail and the head string.

To do kitchen work; to prepare food.

To embellish a basic food; to season, add condiments, etc.

(by extension) To embellish; to dress up.

A room equipped for cooking food; the room of a house, restaurant, or other building appropriated to cookery.

A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen.

The staff that works in a kitchen.

To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen.

A room equipped for preparing meals