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 first time I was introduced to prime rib I was a young line cook working in a steak house,” says Bobby Vollmer, now chef de cuisine for the Falls Buffet at Snoqualmie Casino.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2022
Delgado — a veteran of China Chilcano in Penn Quarter who’s assisted by chef de cuisine Alex Lazo, 31, a fellow Peruvian — explains much of his cooking in person.
From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2022
Seeing some fine big fellows swimming about in a deep hole is a great temptation, especially when you know they are grey mullet, and the chef de cuisine is short of the wherewithal for dinner.
From Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon by Baker, Samuel White, Sir
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