Nouvelle Cuisine

[Birchy]

I remember the term 'Nouvelle Cuisine', but never found out what it was. It always seemed to be French for 'small portions'...... what was it? Merely simple food without elaborate sauces, or was it just a rip-off?

[Kit]

Heard it described once as "lots of nothing on a big white plate", and haven't seen any evidence to the contrary!

[Janetx]

It's politely telling the waiter to stop hovering and put down your little side dish of vegetables, him informing you that it is not just for you but to be shared by everyone at the table, you laughing in his face and politely informing him that he'd better bring another half a dozen if he knows what's good for him, and getting a round of applause.

[stanbee]

NC reinvented the grand classic cuisine of royalty for modern times. The idea of simplifying and lightening the earlier cuisine, came from Ch Fernand Point at "Les Pyramides", Viennes around the 60's. He revolutionized French cooking,M M.Guerard created Cuisine Minceur which was lighter diet or spa food.. The smaller multiple courses of French cooking seem like a rip to some. To others art.

[Janetx]

Starving artists may leave an art gallery hungry, but it is no way for a diner to leave a restaurant.