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just to check... Do you really say "haute cuisine" in english ? Because we do say " grande cuisine" in french not "haute" ? fr0069
Is it me or does that last sentence in the Canada section not make any sense at all? I'd fix it, if I could figure out what the intended meaning was -- Lenehey 00:06, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
I don't think this article is accurate. As best I can tell haute cuisine or grande cuisine is simply that practiced formerly in the great hotels of Europe and now in great restaurants worldwide. It is the sort of thing exemplified by the Michelin guide. This can include nouvelle cuisine, "California cuisine", postmodern cuisine... Perhaps it has also been used to describe the style of Carême, but the cuisine of Escoffier is properly called cuisine classique which stands for the canon of French standards that Escoffier systematized. Also, as far as I can tell, it has nothing to do with huge amounts of butter, which is a hallmark of nouvelle cuisine, one of the central tenets of which was to get rid, or minimize the use of flour-thickened sauces.
It may also be that it is used to define the particular style of service, but I always thought that was called service à la Russe, in which an elaborate system of waiters and kitchen staff rapidly plated and presented hot food in multiple courses, rather than leaving it to grow cold on the table banquet-style (called service à la Française). – Joke 18:20, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
I do not think that it is right to define the Haute Cuisine as it is in this article. Surely, I do not beleive that one can state that French Haute Cuisine was popular until the seventies, when the nouvelle cuisine was gaining ground. My preffered interpretation of the different cuisines is that the Haute Cuisine can best be described as the french-service styled banquet cooking, which was very common in the houses of French aristocracy before the Revolution. A significant differentation can be witnessed since 1789, expressed through the work of Brillat-Savarin, Carême and Grimod de la Reynière. This different style of cooking, which seems to be the defenition of HC in this article can better be described as classical cuisine, which in it's turn is depopularized by the upcomming 'nouvelle cuisine' during the seventies. Another option is to say that the nouvelle cuisine from the 1970's can be defined as modern or even postmodern cuisine. The distinction between the 3 historical periodds is not expressed very well in this article, in my opinion. Especially from a sociological point of view, there are some arguments to see it the 3-period way. For more information, I would suggest:
Hegarty, J.A. & G Barry O’Mahony (2001): Gastronomy: a phenomenon of cultural expressionism and an aesthetic for living. International journal of hospitality management. p3-13
Mennell, S (1996): All manners of food: Eating and taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the present. Chicago: Illinois University Press. 2nd Edition
Parkhurst Ferguson, P (1998): A Cultural Field in the Making: Gastronomy in 19th-Century France. American journal of sociology, Vol 104 Iss 3. p 597-641
Pitte, J (2002a): French Gastronomy: the history and goegraphy of a passion. New York: Columbia University Press
Rao, H, P Monin & R Durand (2003):Institutional Change in Toque Ville: Nouvelle Cuisine as an Identity Movement in French Gastronomy. American journal of sociology, Vol 108 Iss 4. p795-744
Santich, B (2004): The study of gastronomy and its relevance to hospitality education and training. International journey of hospitality management, Vol 23 Iss 1. p 15-24
Trubek, A (2001): Haute Cuisine: How the French Invented the Culinary Profession. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
"Haute Cuisine can best be described as the french-service styled banquet cooking, which was very common in the houses of French aristocracy before the Revolution. A significant differentation can be witnessed since 1789, expressed through the work of Brillat-Savarin, Carême and Grimod de la Reynière." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.98.115.28 ( talk) 05:06, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
This entire "Stub" reads of point-of-view and is sorely in need of a complete rewrite and then expansion. If one were to read French cuisine much of the information needed for this article could be found there in the national cuisine history section. Books for reference for this article would specifically be best aimed at Trubek's Haute Cuisine and Mennel's All Manner of Food. If no one else gets to this anytime soon, I may work on the article in the next couple of weeks when I have time.-- Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC 06:14, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
Okay, this entire article is in need of a complete redux. There are STRONG differences between Nouvelle Cuisine and Haute / Grande Cuisine. And there is some marked difference between the Haute Cuisine and Cuisine Classique.
As for Nouvelle Cuisine not being a very large term, in talking about trends in the culinary world, there is a VERY REAL use for the term--largely to give name to the trend in France that basically rewrote French cuisine and (possibly more importantly) gave rise to the New American Cuisine that has shaped the timbre of the culinary world for the past three decades. The term may have a variable use in history, but currently, and until we have a better name for the movement (or a better perspective on the last fifty years in the world of cooking), Nouvelle Cuisine has taken a VERY SPECIFIC place in the literature of the times. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.35.207.191 ( talk) 06:14, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Yeah I think as somebody already mentioned above, haute cuisine has a significant historical meaning and isn't a term that is properly applied to contemporary cuisine.
If so (and I'm not completely certain without checking), then this article is mostly misinformation.
Calamitybrook ( talk) 22:50, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Calamitybrook ( talk) 16:25, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Calamitybrook ( talk) 17:14, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Since this article is, and should be, about the historical cuisine that the French aristocracy adopted as their own at the beginning of the Renaissance, it might be a good idea for someone to mention the chefs who left the employ of the House of Medici and became employed at the court of the French King. They were extremely influential in the creation of Haute Cuisine. 76.28.103.69 ( talk) 00:31, 8 November 2009 (UTC)Will in New Haven 76.28.103.69 ( talk) 00:31, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
When was this website published? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.223.138.95 ( talk) 19:56, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
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