amuse-bouche
Sign in to saveAlso known as amuse bouche, amuse-gueule, amuse gueule
An amuse-bouche (; ) or amuse-gueule (, ; ) is a single, bite-sized'' hors d'œuvre''. Amuse-bouches are different from appetizers in that they are not ordered from a menu by patrons but are served free and according to the chef's selection alone. These are served both to prepare the guest for the meal and to offer a glimpse of the chef's style.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 386 inbound references to amuse-bouche, and connects out to hors-d'œuvre, Commercium and France.
It sits within the topics Courses (food), Culinary terminology and French cuisine.
Vinony links it to 22 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Food.name
- Amuse-bouche
- Food.image
- Parmesan Pannacotta - Amuse Bouche - Lake House Restaurant, Daylesford.jpg
- Food.image_size
- 250px
- Food.caption
- A Parmesan panna cotta amuse-bouche
- Food.alternate_name
- Amuse-gueule
- Food.country
- France
- Food.course
- Hors d'oeuvre
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Parmesan Pannacotta - Amuse Bouche - Lake House Restaurant, Daylesford.jpg
Show 2 more facts
- Commons category
- Amuse-bouche
- native label
- Amuse-gueule
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
~3 min read
Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- In restaurants
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
An amuse-bouche (; ) or amuse-gueule (, ; ) is a single, bite-sized'' hors d'œuvre''. Amuse-bouches are different from appetizers in that they are not ordered from a menu by patrons but are served free and according to the chef's selection alone. These are served both to prepare the guest for the meal and to offer a glimpse of the chef's style.
The term is French and literally means "mouth amuser". The plural form may be amuse-bouche or amuse-bouches. In France, is traditionally used in conversation and literary writing, while amuse-bouche is not even listed in most dictionaries, being a euphemistic hypercorrection that appeared in the 1980s on restaurant menus and used almost only there. (In French, bouche refers to the human mouth, while gueule means the wider mouth of an animal, e.g. dog, though commonly used for mouth and derogatory only in certain expressions, e.g. "ferme ta gueule".)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “amuse-bouche” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.