culinary pleasure

yes...

You'll have to send us the food to try, first - and then - perhaps - an answer!

My chef is on one-month maternity leave. I will ask her to send the disehes to you once she resumes duty.

"Culinary" in not used correctly in that sentence. The word "culinary" means "of or relating to or used in cooking". Culinary pleasure would be experienced in the kitchen, (by the cook, I suppose), whereas the pleasure obtained from eating, smelling and seeing the food by the diner might be called "dining pleasure", or just "pleasure".

That should be "Culinary" is not used correctly

I think that you're narrowing the definition a wee bit too much, Contrex.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=18861&dict=CALD
culinary
adjective SLIGHTLY FORMAL
connected with cooking or kitchens:
the culinary delights (= pleasant tasting food) of Beijing

Thanks, fellow members who have responded to my query.

I agree with JTT and was going to post the same.

Also, in some cases in english language usage, words are used as adjectives in a playful way, not strictly by the tight definitions of one or another dictionary. Not all such playful usage is "just wrong".

For example, in regard to playful usage, but on this occasion with a noun, I once used the phrase "up the kazoo" on a2k. I was remonstrated about it, since the usual colloquial phrase is "up the wazoo". I knew full well that I had chosen a different word, and had done so in a sense of play.

Such eminent good sense. Language is for people to use.

Yes! Literary authors, poets, comedians, ordinary people all play with word choices: thus the popularity of some of the a2k word game threads that have to do with word play.