What Is Bourgeoise in Cooking?

In French gastronomy, cuisine bourgeoise is the home cooking of affluent city dwellers, as distinguished from elaborate restaurant cooking, haute cuisine, and from the cooking of the regions, the peasantry, and the urban poor.

What language is cuisine chef bourgeois?

French cuisine is much more than the haute cuisine inherited from the nobility. It is also the tasty, inexpensive cuisine that French families eat every day, called cuisine bourgeoise, or “bourgeois cuisine.”

Who created cuisine bourgeoise?

It is a cuisine epitomized by les mères de Lyon, the celebrated female chefs of Lyon during the 19th and early 20th centuries, and one that shaped my childhood and family traditions.

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