haute cuisine

When he was 25, Garcia was France’s youngest Michelin-starred chef, so it’s somewhat startling to find him, a decade later, in the middle of beautiful nowhere, serving up hyperlocal haute cuisine.

David Bouley, 70, the award-winning and frenetic chef whose idiosyncratic haute cuisine and crusty breads pleased critics and the public during a career chasing sleek deliciousness, died Monday at his home in Kent, Conn.

“I am not a fusion chef or what is considered ‘haute cuisine.’

“One could argue the Kanai-Wolff collaboration fed into the elevation of Japanese cuisine from an ethnic to a haute cuisine.”

They were aiming for less of a theme-park ode to the Cold War and leaning into an intimate, boutique celebration of luxe caviar and vodka, of the rich, Imperial flavor of Russian haute cuisine.