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
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But over time, in some cities, New York among them, the totemic simplicity of a man eating a steak fell out of fashion, replaced by more heterogeneous modes of conspicuous connoisseurship: nouvelle cuisine, the auteur-chef tasting menu, the thousand-dollar omakase, the members-only supper club.
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Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
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
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Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
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
See All Example Sentences for nouvelle cuisine
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“Nouvelle cuisine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nouvelle%20cuisine. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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