His culinary roots hark back to Italy.

David Van Laer is an experienced chef who has moved to new quarters, while remaining faithful to his culinary roots.

Bamboo shoots, mushrooms, fruit, medicinal or culinary roots, and leaves are gathered in the forest according to the season.

Whatever fragile culinary roots America had put down had been torn out by the industrialization of food production and packaging.

Even with my Cantonese ancestral and culinary roots, I have always had a passion for the fiery foods of Sichuan.

In a dining room traditionally appointed with brick-and-paneled walls, early American art and brass chandeliers, the Coach House offers reminders of America's culinary roots.

It draws its culinary roots most significantly from the cuisines of Central, Northern and Eastern Europe, and is influenced by regionally and locally grown foodstuffs and cultural diversity.

Neither is the food at Prairie, where Mr. Langlois also speaks of turning to the area's culinary roots, especially those of its Scandinavian and German settlers.

But now many Argentines, feeling the effects of external forces like globalization, are re-evaluating the country's long-shunned culinary roots.

Some cooks emerge from the underground to become caterers, which is a way to maintain their culinary roots.