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nou·velle cuisine

 (no͞o-vĕl′)
n.
A contemporary school of French cooking that seeks to bring out the natural flavors of foods and substitutes light, low-calorie sauces and stocks for the traditional heavy butter-based and cream-based preparations.

[French : nouvelle, new + cuisine, cuisine.]
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nouvelle cuisine

(ˈnuːvɛl kwɪˈziːn)
n
(Cookery) a style of preparing and presenting food, often raw or only lightly cooked, with light sauces, and unusual combinations of flavours and garnishes
[C20: French, literally: new cookery]
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nou•velle′ cuisine′

(nuˈvɛl)

n.
a style of cooking that emphasizes the use of fresh ingredients, unusual combinations of foods, light sauces, and the artful presentation of food.
[1975–80; < French]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.nouvelle cuisine - a school of French cooking that uses light sauces and tries to bring out the natural flavors of foods instead of making heavy use of butter and cream
cuisine, culinary art - the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared
France, French Republic - a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe
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nouvelle cuisine

nouvelle cuisine

[ˈnuːvelkwiːˈziːn] Nnueva cocina f, nouvelle cuisine f
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nouvelle cuisine

nNouvelle cuisine f
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It isn't steely cold precision, forcing ingredients to bend to his will like some deranged nouvelle cuisine chef.
It was, in part, a rejection of "nouvelle cuisine," the movement that made French chefs notorious for small plates, exquisitely presented but often not all that satisfying.
In France, Robuchon is regarded as a chefwho ushered in an era of authenticity after the restraint of nouvelle cuisine.
Explore enduring open-air markets and their new organic relatives; sample czarist and nouvelle cuisine; visit retro Soviet cafes and modern vodka bars; and meet famed chefs and dine in a country dacha.
He worked at the famed La Mere Brazier in Lyon, then spent eight years with one of his culinary idols, Fernand Point, whose cooking was a precursor to France's nouvelle cuisine movement, with lighter sauces and lightly cooked fresh vegetables.
Paul Bocuse, the father of nouvelle cuisine, has died at the age of 91.
He was an early exponent of "nouvelle cuisine", which reinterpreted traditional French cooking using less butter and cream and focusing on fresh ingredients and stylish presentation.
He works with ingredients native to his region, from the sea to the mountains, and in the style of another teacher, the nouvelle cuisine pioneer Michel Guerard, you can expect plenty of #cleaneating.
Skilful Vietnamese chefs like to refer to their cooking as the nouvelle cuisine of combining Asian and European culinary traditions," the note explains, "And indeed, with rice as the most important staple, along with wheat, legumes, fresh herbs and vegetables; minimal use of oil, and treatment of meat as a condiment rather than a main course; Vietnamese food has 10,000 kinds of dishes.
Many words we use are obviously French: a la carte, avant-garde, cul-de-sac, cliche, chic, carte blanche, deja vu, derriere, femme fatale, fiance, gauche, liaison, nouvelle cuisine, omelette, panache, sabotage, voyeur.
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