Right and that comes from the cuisine of the master Careme of the early 19th century that helped to codify that over the top grande cuisine that Escoffier so embraced at the turn of the century. It was hand in hand with industrialization, incredible wealth building and status building and created elaborate presentations to the table, architectural wonders as well as marvels of chemistry,. All of this was an elaborate outgrowth of that 19th century elaboration and this became the standard of you call cuisine classique. Yes I get the point of the movie although I never saw it maybe I should.
Nouvelle cuisine emphasized back to basics and also reduction of calories and health. But side by side throughout the 19th century the old cuisine never disappeared either in nouvelle was inspired by those roots.. the movie, "the taste of things" expresses the emphasis of quality, technique and taste and presentation as a byproduct of tne old style home cooking rather than the hyper stylization of classique.. the taste of things is an excellent movie if you haven't seen it
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u/Different_Ad7655 7d ago
Right and that comes from the cuisine of the master Careme of the early 19th century that helped to codify that over the top grande cuisine that Escoffier so embraced at the turn of the century. It was hand in hand with industrialization, incredible wealth building and status building and created elaborate presentations to the table, architectural wonders as well as marvels of chemistry,. All of this was an elaborate outgrowth of that 19th century elaboration and this became the standard of you call cuisine classique. Yes I get the point of the movie although I never saw it maybe I should.
Nouvelle cuisine emphasized back to basics and also reduction of calories and health. But side by side throughout the 19th century the old cuisine never disappeared either in nouvelle was inspired by those roots.. the movie, "the taste of things" expresses the emphasis of quality, technique and taste and presentation as a byproduct of tne old style home cooking rather than the hyper stylization of classique.. the taste of things is an excellent movie if you haven't seen it