nouvelle cuisine

1. 1.

   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

   Broadercuisine

   France

Questions about nouvelle cuisine

What does nouvelle cuisine mean?

nouvelle cuisine means "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".

Is nouvelle cuisine a common word?

nouvelle cuisine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.