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nouvelle cuisine

[noo-vel kwee-zeen] / nu vɛl kwiˈzin /


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He also explores yuppies’ attraction to marathons, nouvelle cuisine and Gary Hart, who ran a pair of lawyer-driven, technocratic campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 1980s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

It’s the moment when old-school French — think white tablecloths, heavy sauces and snooty maitre’d’s — faded into the background, allowing nouvelle cuisine and what we now call New American to take its place.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026

But, when I interviewed him in the nineteen-eighties, he took pains to distance himself from nouvelle cuisine.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 2019

But not every flavor beloved in the trickle-down years has retained its aura; some, particularly those associated with nouvelle cuisine, quickly soured.

From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2018

Long after his heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, when he was the world’s most visible proselytizer for nouvelle cuisine, he continued to command respect.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2018


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