Culinary art (7)
I believe the answer is:
cuisine
'culinary art' is the definition.
(I know that culinary art can be written as cuisine)
This is the entire clue.
(Other definitions for cuisine that I've seen before include "Cooking style characteristic of a place" , "The food" , "French cooking?" , "Culinary art" , "Haute . . . . . . . is high-class cooking" .)