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Take the early 17th century, when the humble salad was unexpectedly sweet — before French haute cuisine banished sugar firmly to the dessert course.

Northern Ireland isn’t known for haute cuisine, or even for soulful peasant dishes like haggis.

If the goal of haute cuisine is to show people the best cut of this or the ultimate version of that, there is inevitably a lot that cannot be used.

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.