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cucina

American  
[koo-chee-nuh] / kuˈtʃi nə /

noun

  1. Italian Cooking. cuisine (used in Italian phrases referring to different types of Italian cuisine).


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The dish is rooted in cucina povera, or “poor kitchen,” a tradition of resourceful, heart-forward cooking that stretches across Italy.

From Salon May 14, 2025

Grains, pulses and vegetables dominate this cucina povera, with small amounts of meat and cheese.

From The Guardian Sep. 1, 2019

From the recipe’s cucina povera beginnings, Marchetti added one more secret for an updated version on Food & Wine: the umami-intensifying power of dried porcini, times two.

From Slate Jan. 31, 2019

So it’s no surprise that as I started meal planning on my new budget, the dishes I made skewed toward cucina povera.

From Washington Post Jan. 4, 2019

This is taken from the same Latin word from which the Romance languages formed cuisine, cucina; not from the classical Latin, culina.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

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