Cuisine

Cuisine (pronounced "quizeen") (from French cuisine, "cooking; culinary art; kitchen"; ultimately from Latin coquere, "to cook") is a characteristic style of cooking practices and traditions,often associated with a specific culture. Cuisines are often named after the geographic areas or regions from which they originate. ...more

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Cuisine Books

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

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Let's Eat Italy!: Everything You Want to Know About Your Favorite Cuisine (Let's Eat Series, 2)

Foundations of Flavor: The Noma Guide to Fermentation

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Lists

The Complete Baking Book for Young Chefs by America's Test Kitchen Kids

2020 IACP Award Winners

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The Canadian Living Cookbook by Carol Ferguson

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95 books — 4 voters

The New Ukrainian Cookbook by Annette Ogrodnik Corona

Best Central & Eastern European Cookbooks

31 books — 9 voters

The Physiology of Taste by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

An Early Meal - a Viking Age Cookbook & Culinary Odyssey by Daniel Serra

Gastroliterature

22 books — 9 voters

Craving Palestine Cookbook by Lama Bazzari

Best Palestinian Cookbooks

15 books — 5 voters

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Foodie Historical Fiction

46 books — 35 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Cuisine”

“ Chef Simone is clearly inspired by classical French cooking but she's totally making it her own. SHE'S so cool. For instance, her "half-cooked" potatoes are shredded, poached in oil, drained, and tossed with a lip-smacking homemade XO sauce, and then topped with a perfect piece of steamed turbot. It's not your traditional, beautifully plated French meal, but I swear it has raw sex appeal and it's so good. ...more ”
― Amy Rosen, Off Menu

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“ There is a pot of coarse oat porridge with bilberries, a whole side of smoked salmon on a waney-edged plank and venison black pudding as crumbly as chocolate cake. Nettles are pressed into crispbread like leaves on a frozen pond. A sleigh ride from Lapland, snow falling and faced with the breakfast of my dreams, I spoon cakes of potato and kale onto my plate to eat with slices of beetroot-cured salmon. I drink glowing red lingonberry juice from a shot glass that feels like a transfusion and stir ...more ”
― Nigel Slater, A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts

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