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‖ haute cuisine|ot kɥizin| [Fr., f. haute (fem.) high + cuisine.] High-class (French) cooking.
1926Time 5 July 12 In France, perhaps in France alone, the traditions of la haute cuisine survive from the days of the great gastronomes. 1928S. Browne tr. T. H. Varo de Velde's Ideal Marriage xv. 277 The most effective dish in the haute cuisine is supposed to be crayfish soup. 1930A. Bennett Imperial Palace xxxvi. 246 La Haute cuisine. Not fifty people in the world were equipped by education and natural taste to comprehend it. 1935Time 11 Mar. 22/1 If only English landladies spoke French, and if only their English cooks knew something of haute cuisine, Frenchmen with gold francs would be tempted across the Channel. 1951E. David French Country Cooking 172 Their use in what was regarded as Haute Cuisine became ridiculously excessive, and no dish was considered really refined without a garnish of sliced truffle. 1959Listener 30 Apr. 776/3 The miracles of haute cuisine often arrive from a kitchen where the scales are faulty! 1962Auden Dyer's Hand 75 It is difficult to imagine a haute cuisine based on algae and chemically treated grass. 1966Observer 25 Sept. 46/2 An egg-based haute cuisine dinner for 6. |