Proponents say 'canna cuisine' making inroads into mainstream cooking

LEICESTER - Lianne Whalen spread the avocado on the toasted olive bread. Then she layered on prosciutto; dressed fresh watercress, greens and pickled red onions with a freshly squeezed Meyer lemon, asiago cheese, and olive oil; and topped it all with crumbled hard-boiled egg.

“That’s our infused avocado toast,” said Ms. Whalen, executive chef at Cultivate marijuana dispensary in Leicester as she presented the dish.

And because the olive oil is normally infused with marijuana, that is cooking with cannabis in 2019, a far different experience than adding a bit of your stash to a batch of Betty Crocker brownie mix.

While infused avocado toast at cannabis cafes may be a ways off in Massachusetts, a bit of a culinary revolution is happening in kitchens across the commonwealth with the availability of legal marijuana and an embrace of what has been referred to as “canna-cuisine.”

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(Worcester Telegram & Gazette)