"Haute cuisine" means elegant cooking.

Haute Cuisine is an elaborate and skillful manner of preparing food. Haute cuisine is to emphasize and bring out the hidden natural flavours

Haute cuisine is popular in France, where multiple small dishes are served. This seems to be traceable to the 1600s and a chef named La Varenne .

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Haute cuisine refers to fine dining, and encompasses many high-end food cooking styles. Nouvelle cuisine was a food movement or style popularised in the 1990s, which was infamous for it's very small portion sizes. Nouvelle cuisine is not particularly fashionable in modern day.