chef de cuisine
Americannoun
plural
chefs de cuisineEtymology
Origin of chef de cuisine
Literally, “head of kitchen”
Example Sentences
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He landed his first chef de cuisine role at age 26 at the since-shuttered David Burke & Donatella.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025
Hollingsworth, who was Thomas Keller’s chef de cuisine at the French Laundry, co-owned the restaurant with Carl Schuster, a founding partner of Wolfgang Puck catering and CEO and founder of Cast Iron Partners.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2024
The veteran bartender recruited a team of local culinary all-stars to help out in the kitchen: Jonnah Ayala, the former chef de cuisine at Musang, and Justin Legaspi of Renee Erickson’s Boat Bar.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2024
Guiding the D.C. team in its early days is Christina Wilson, the Season 10 “Hell’s Kitchen” winner, whose reward was the chef de cuisine position at Gordon Ramsay Steak at the Paris Las Vegas.
From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2023
Bacon, however, is the soldier's sheet anchor; and, the variety of forms in which he can cook and prepare for eating this article, while in the field, would astonish even a French chef de cuisine.
From The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself by Peters, de Witt C.
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