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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

He’s not one to complain in restaurants — imagine the despair it would cause — but Pépin is no fan of “punctuation cooking,” nouvelle cuisine run amok with squeeze-bottle calligraphy.

From Washington Post Oct. 1, 2022

That changed in the early 1960s with the arrival of nouvelle cuisine, Mr. Pépin reckons.

From New York Times Aug. 5, 2022

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




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