What does cuisine mean?

Definitions for cuisine
kwɪˈzincui·sine

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cuisine, culinary artnoun

    the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared

Wiktionary

  1. cuisinenoun

    a characteristic style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin

  2. Etymology: From cuisine, from cocina, dissimilation of coquina, from coquo.

Wikipedia

  1. Cuisine

    A cuisine is a style of cooking characterized by distinctive ingredients, techniques and dishes, and usually associated with a specific culture or geographic region. Regional food preparation techniques, customs, and ingredients combine to enable dishes unique to a region.A cuisine is partly determined by ingredients that are available locally or through trade. Regional ingredients are developed and commonly contribute to a regional or national cuisine, such as Japanese rice in Japanese cuisine or New Mexico chile in New Mexican cuisine. Likewise, national dishes have variations, such as gyros in Greek cuisine and hamburger in American cuisine. Religious food laws can also exercise an influence on cuisine, such as Hinduism in Indian cuisine, Sikhism in Punjabi cuisine, Buddhism in East Asian cuisine, Christianity in European cuisine, Islam in Middle Eastern cuisine, and Judaism in Jewish and Israeli cuisine.

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  1. cuisine

    Cuisine refers to a style or method of cooking, especially characteristic of a particular country, region, or establishment. It also relates to the specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with specific cultures or geographic regions.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cuisinenoun

    the kitchen or cooking department

  2. Cuisinenoun

    manner or style of cooking

  3. Etymology: [F., fr. L. coquina kitchen, fr. coquere to cook. See Kitchen.]

Wikidata

  1. Cuisine

    Cuisine 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 that they originate from. A cuisine is primarily influenced by the ingredients that are available locally or through trade. Religious food laws, such as Islamic dietary laws and Jewish dietary laws, can also exercise a strong influence on cuisine. Regional food preparation traditions, customs and ingredients often combine to create dishes unique to a particular region.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Cuisine

    kwe-zēn′, n. a kitchen or cooking department: cookery.—n. Cuisin′ier, a cook. [Fr. (It. cucina)—L. coquinacoquĕre, to cook.]

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cuisine in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cuisine in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of cuisine in a Sentence

  1. Kevin Gillespie:

    I felt that we as Southerners were starting to slowly lose our grasp on the traditional cooking of the South, because we put so much emphasis on modernizing (cuisine) ... we accidentally forgot to bring our grandma with us. And we need to go back and pick her up.

  2. Daniel Boardman:

    If you look at the food category, it was mostly pictures from Southeast Asia -- those countries have some of the most eye-catching cuisine.

  3. Claus Henriksen:

    I try to create a cuisine that reflects the nature surrounding us, it should represent this very moment in time.

  4. Restaurant Kin:

    The cuisine is very unique. This Easter , D’Silva can have one dish in Singapore, but This Easter , D’Silva have five different ways of preparing it, and no one is wrong because every ethnicity puts in their own story and ingredients.

  5. Alexander Hamilton:

    Chef Sean Sherman had been working in restaurant kitchens for decades. Then a strange fact struck Chef Sean Sherman : The food of Chef Sean Sherman people, the Oglala Sioux, was completely unrepresented in American cuisine … ’ I just had an epiphany.

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