garde-manger
Americannoun
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a cool room used for storing foods and for preparing certain dishes, especially cold buffet dishes.
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a chef or cook who supervises the preparation of cold dishes.
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of garde-manger
Literally, “(that which) keeps food”
Example Sentences
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But years ago, after cooking at the now-closed Boston restaurant Clio, he saw how the garde-manger chef laboriously processed the many vegetables required for the green salad — “17 or so,” he guessed.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
The prep cooks chopping vegetables in garde-manger were mostly East Asian and Central American immigrants.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019
I was assigned to garde-manger, where I chopped carrots, cleaned buckets of squid, and fixed the occasional salad.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019
I usually worked in garde-manger, preparing salads and chopping vegetables, but I was occasionally allowed to work on the line, searing steaks, duck breasts, and thick slabs of foie gras.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019
Of these latter there were a goodly number sketched out in a sort of note-book or album, which his sister Laure called his garde-manger or pantry.
From Balzac by Lawton, Frederick
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