Word: nuova
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the dollar is worth princely piles of lire, Americans in Italy should be getting more of everything for less, right? Yes, unless they happen to be gastronomical pilgrims in search of the Continent's current culinary wonder, la nuova cucina italiana, the new Italian cooking. In this case, the less-is-more rule applies. Also, less for more. La nuova cucina is found in expensive, often formidably serious restaurants, most of them in Northern Italy, where the fare is spare, artfully presented and somewhat outlandish. Surprising and a bit haughty, it has often been compared with the French...
...ambitious local chefs are trying to Frenchify their food. The innovators are on the march, however. The Milan-based magazine Italian Wines & Spirits has reported, with some hyperbole, that they "are gradually transforming the laws and principles of the nation's great culinary tradition ... The germs of the nuova cucina spread at the rate of a contagion...