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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The nouvelle cuisine recipes are tested and altered and worried over until perfection is achieved. — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Nov. 2023 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 Pierre Troisgros, who took over the original restaurant from his father, Jean-Pierre, in the late 1950s, was one of nouvelle cuisine’s key players. — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2023 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

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from French, literally, "new cuisine"

First Known Use

1975, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of nouvelle cuisine was in 1975

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