California cuisine in particular can get expensive, and one of its hallmarks is the inventiveness of the chef in combining fresh ingredients into a new dish. So you’re probably right that expensive French or expensive Italian is mostly traditional food, but there are other cuisines that aren’t like that.
That’s the type of exception I had in mind. Of course, “fresh” says something about the nature of the food too. (Unless you mean “novel” as opposed to “recently alive”.)
California cuisine in particular can get expensive, and one of its hallmarks is the inventiveness of the chef in combining fresh ingredients into a new dish. So you’re probably right that expensive French or expensive Italian is mostly traditional food, but there are other cuisines that aren’t like that.
That’s the type of exception I had in mind. Of course, “fresh” says something about the nature of the food too. (Unless you mean “novel” as opposed to “recently alive”.)
The “fresh” in California cuisine is about “recently alive”, though “novel” is often part of the experience as well.