nouvelle cuisine

noun

: a form of French cuisine that uses little flour or fat and stresses light sauces and the use of fresh seasonal produce
also : a national or regional cuisine that stresses lightness and freshness in preparation
American nouvelle cuisine

Examples of nouvelle cuisine in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The food was visual art, always presented in a nouvelle cuisine way, with blobs of sauces and edible petals, which felt adventurous. Joseph Gallivan, Axios, 26 July 2024 David Bouley, the American chef who first translated French nouvelle cuisine into the New American style that shaped modern high-end cooking, died Monday at his home in Kent, Conn. Julia Moskin, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024 The dishes are small and delicate, each one a complicated amalgam of traditional French cooking, Japanese aesthetics, and the practices of la nouvelle cuisine. David Denby, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023 The nouvelle cuisine recipes are tested and altered and worried over until perfection is achieved. Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Nov. 2023 See all Example Sentences for nouvelle cuisine 

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Word History

Etymology

borrowed from French, literally, "new cuisine"

First Known Use

1975, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of nouvelle cuisine was in 1975

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“Nouvelle cuisine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nouvelle%20cuisine. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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