High Cuisine: The Budding Relationship Between Cannabis and Fine Dining

Much to the delight of enthusiasts and aficionados across the nation, the rapidly-growing number of states that have legalized recreational marijuana has in turn given rise to the so-called “cannabis fine dining” industry. With leading pioneers coming primarily out of California and Colorado, the cannabis cuisine phenomenon is quickly catching on across the country thanks to the efforts of talented chefs, celebrity caterers and imaginative public relations campaigns.What exactly is cannabis fine dining, in a nutshell?

Cannabis cuisine employs organic compounds present within the cannabis plant to put new and creative twists to culinary favorites in every category. From complex desserts and pastries to gastronomical standards from around the world, cannabis cuisine makes use of compounds that have been established in scientific literature as beneficial to the human body. Using ingenuity and know-how, chefs dovetail the taste and scent profiles of different cannabis strains to…