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In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.
Julia Child

Meaning of "cuisine minceur" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CUISINE MINCEUR

Literally: slimness cooking.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CUISINE MINCEUR

cuisine minceur  [kɥizin mɛ̃sœr] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CUISINE MINCEUR

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cuisine minceur is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CUISINE MINCEUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cuisine minceur

Cuisine minceur is a style of cooking created by French chef Michel Guérard, which recreated lighter versions of traditional nouvelle cuisine dishes. Critics acknowledged that the minceur versions by Guérard tasted better and were less filling than their nouvelle cuisine originals.

Definition of cuisine minceur in the English dictionary

The definition of cuisine minceur in the dictionary is a style of cooking, originating in France, that limits the use of starch, sugar, butter, and cream traditionally used in French cookery.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CUISINE MINCEUR


danseur
dɑ̃sœr
farceur
farsœr

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CUISINE MINCEUR

cuffo
cuffs
Cufic
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cuirass
cuirassier
Cuisenaire rod
cuish
Cuisinart
cuisine
cuisinier
cuisse
cuit
cuiter
cuitikin
cuittle
cuke
cul-de-sac

WORDS THAT END LIKE CUISINE MINCEUR

affaire d´honneur
affaires d´honneur
amateur
auteur
Bonheur
chauffeur
Coeur
coiffeur
douceur
entrepreneur
grandeur
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monsieur
Pasteur
seigneur
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Synonyms and antonyms of cuisine minceur in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cuisine minceur» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CUISINE MINCEUR

Find out the translation of cuisine minceur to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cuisine minceur from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cuisine minceur» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

美食minceur
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cocina minceur
570 millions of speakers

English

cuisine minceur
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भोजन Minceur
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

المطبخ مينسور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кухня Minceur
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cozinha minceur
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রন্ধনপ্রণালী minceur
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cuisine minceur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Masakan minceur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Küche minceur
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

料理minceur
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

요리 minceur
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Masakan minceur
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ẩm thực minceur
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உணவு பரிமாறுதல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पाककृती मिनेसर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Mutfağı minceur
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cuisine minceur
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Kuchnia Minceur
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кухня Minceur
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bucătărie Minceur
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κουζίνα minceur
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kombuis Minceur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

köket minceur
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cuisine minceur
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cuisine minceur

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CUISINE MINCEUR»

The term «cuisine minceur» is normally little used and occupies the 110.382 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CUISINE MINCEUR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cuisine minceur

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QUOTES WITH «CUISINE MINCEUR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word cuisine minceur.
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Julia Child
In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CUISINE MINCEUR»

Discover the use of cuisine minceur in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cuisine minceur and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Eat Well and Stay Slim: The Essential Cuisine Minceur
As the inventor of gastronomic slimming cuisine and a driving force behind nouvelle cuisine, Michel Guérard was one of the first global Gallic celebrity chefs.
Michel Guerard, 2014
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Texas Monthly
Brave explorers will find Michel Gue- rard's Cuisine Minceur seminal but frustrating. Cuisine minceur is Guerard's rigorously low-calorie version of nouvelle cuisine; his inventions are truly radical and often superb, and his book describes those ...
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Anglicisms, Neologisms and Dynamic French
... documents (10-85): Le programme Weight Watchers départ minceur Weight Watchers: cuisine saveur, cuisine minceur All of the following binomial structures arguably create instances of virtual co-reference: départ minceur, cuisine minceur, ...
Michael D. Picone, 1996
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Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People
Nouvelle Cuisine, pared down even more and stripped of fat, resulted in super- lean cuisines like spa cuisine and cuisine minceur (French for “lean cuisine”). Many people thought that cutting out fats was the way to immortality. Nathan Pritikin ...
Linda Civitello, 2007
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European Gastronomy into the 21st Century
... Maigre Cuisine du Marché La Cuisine aux mille senteurs Cuisine Minceur Minceur Exquise La Grande Cuisine Minceur La Cuisine Moderne Cuisine Naturelle Nouvelle Cuisine Cuisine Parfumée La Cuisine Fiéussie Cuisine sans frontiéres ...
Cailein Gillespie, John Cousins, 2012
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Slim and Healthy Italian Cooking
All these qualities are an integral part of cucina magra which gained its foundation and refinements from many regional sources unlike the highly touted cusine minceur. The concept of cuisine minceur, the French lighter, lo-cal cooking, is to ...
Marina Polvay, 1990
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Food in Motion: The Migration of Foodstuffs and Cookery ...
And for a time in the seventies, nouvelle cuisine was widely misunderstood to be just another name for cuisine minceur, which was really no more than one facet of one inspired chef's practice. Guérard later published a much more important ...
‎1983
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Social Studies: Collected Essays, 1974-2013
In gastronomy, “Nothing is best” has led to the emergence ofwhat is known as the “lean cuisine” or, to give it its proper name, “cuisine minceur.” At one time, “ cuisine minceur” actually performed a useful service. The idea was that it was ...
Jon Peirce, 2014
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Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era
Alongside Bocuse, who offers full-blooded gastro-porn along with the traditional pastoral, are the exponents of cuisine minceur. The premise of cuisine minceur is that you can have your cake and eat it with a clear conscience; that French ...
Alexander Cockburn, 1988
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Why We Eat What We Eat: How Columbus Changed the Way the ...
Cuisine minceur, as he dubbed the recipes he worked out for diet-conscious guests, was an ingenious, fat-free program that attracted large dollops of publicity . Guerard published a successful book. His svelte wife told reporters: "We will not  ...
Raymond Sokolov, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CUISINE MINCEUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cuisine minceur is used in the context of the following news items.
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To Arms, French
The unfortunate the advent of “cuisine minceur” – tiny dollops of tasteless glop designed for weight-watching women and overweight mice also ... «Sri Lanka Guardian, Jun 15»
2
The Spas and Surf of France's Basque Country
One of the founders of nouvelle cuisine, Michel Guérard is—at least in France—more famous for cuisine minceur, an unfortunate term for food ... «Condé Nast Traveler, May 15»
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10 Old-Fashioned French Bistros to Try in New York City
The onion soup here is thinner than usual, and at some point in your meal the idea is likely to strike you that the cuisine minceur of the 1970s ... «Eater NY, Jan 15»
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Head coaches, walk the plank!
In the land of five-course gourmet meals and cuisine minceur, bacon cheeseburgers are flying off the grill at 29 euros each, about $35. «ESPN, Jan 15»
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Summer "Reating"
During the 1970s and early '80s, Michel Guérard—a three-Michelin-starred chef—was at the forefront of the cuisine minceur movement, which ... «Salt Lake City Weekly, Jul 14»
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Cook's Corner White BBQ sauce is regional Alabama specialty
His groundbreaking 1970s Cuisine Minceur has sold more than a million copies. This new book, out since April, reflects Guerard's 40 years of ... «Online Athens, Jun 14»
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Les Prés d'Eugénie: A French cookery lesson with a culinary legend
Our lesson ended with a demonstration of how to make apple and lime soufflé, a dish from Guérard's repertoire of low-calorie cuisine minceur ... «The Independent, Jun 14»
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Learn to cook with a legend in the world of haute-cuisine
Guérard, 81, is a gastronomic legend for two good reasons: he invented Grande Cuisine Minceur, or slimming cuisine, back in the 1970s, ... «CITY A.M., May 14»
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Keeping nouvelle cuisine current and healthy
Anyway, back in the 1970s his "Cuisine Minceur," a cookbook dedicated to spa-worthy, trimmed-down recipes sold more than a million copies. «Durham Herald Sun, May 14»
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Eat well and stay slim with the new book from Michel Guérard
Guérard's lightweight cooking earned him his third Michelin star (which he still holds 37 years on) and his Cuisine Minceur cookbook sold a ... «GQ.com, May 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Cuisine minceur [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cuisine-minceur>. Apr 2024 ».
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