nouvelle cuisine
- noun
- /nuˈvɛl kuˈzin/
- Specialized
:
nueva cocina
- When nouvelle cuisine chefs succeed, they always build creatively on the past, ringing some elegant or clever change on a culinary tradition.
- nouvelle cuisine chefs
Examples
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Why aren't you in some fancy restaurant having nouvelle cuisine?
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So that's the Nueva nouvelle cuisine as as the New York Times named it.
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So one of the the prime practitioners of the nouvelle cuisine was Michel Brat.
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Upstairs serves nouvelle cuisine at New York—or at least, Chicago—prices.
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The restaurant is known for its innovative approach to nouvelle cuisine, featuring fresh ingredients and light sauces.
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Chef Pierre specializes in nouvelle cuisine, focusing on enhancing the natural flavors of seasonal produce.
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During our visit, we experienced a delightful meal of nouvelle cuisine, which highlighted the culinary techniques of modern French cooking.
Antonyms
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A way of cooking a dish people pass down in a family or community for many years
How Rich
Surface Forms
Morphology
nouvelle + cuisine
The element 'cuisine' clearly denotes cooking, and if a learner recognizes 'nouvelle' as French for 'new' they can infer the literal sense ‘new cooking’ or a new style, so part of the meaning is compositional. However, in English it names a specific culinary movement with technical connotations (light sauces, emphasis on fresh ingredients) and is a loanphrase, so the full, specialized sense is not fully predictable from the parts alone.
Etymology
Nouvelle cuisine comes from French: nouvelle means 'new' and cuisine means 'cooking'. In the 1960s and 1970s some chefs wanted lighter sauces and to let fresh ingredients shine, so the phrase came to mean 'light, fresh cooking'.