chef de cuisine

[ shef duh kwee-zeen ]

noun

, French.

, plural chefs de cui·sine [shef d, uh, kwee-, zeen].

1. chef ( def 1 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of chef de cuisine¹

Literally, “head of kitchen”

Example Sentences

The playful side of the kitchen, helmed by chef de cuisine Leena Ali, Deshaies’s longtime culinary associate, is repeated in two terrific appetizers.

From Washington Post

Lopez was a pastry chef, while Fuschillo was a chef de cuisine.

From Eater

As the restaurant’s chef de cuisine, the Eater 2019 Young Gun was nominated for a James Beard Award for Rising Star Chef

From Eater

As the young chef de cuisine of The Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton in Sydney, he quickly earned international acclaim.

From The Daily Beast

Jean François Bruel, executive chef at Daniel, and Eddy Leroux, chef de cuisine, in particular.

From The Daily Beast

Andy bid fair to be no mean chef-de-cuisine, if his experiments always resulted so favourably as in the present instance.

From Project Gutenberg

I shall now go and see your kitchen, and pay a visit to your chef de cuisine.

From Project Gutenberg

At midnight, the soldiers and the chef de cuisine, who has had his kitchen in the court, departed.

From Project Gutenberg

If it did not affect our pockets, it curtailed the duties of our chef de cuisine, and diminished the pleasures of the table.

From Project Gutenberg

Our munificent entertainers had sent out their own valets and chef de cuisine.

From Project Gutenberg