Kitchen language

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Menu card with French technical terms (around 1900)

The kitchen language (also kitchen technical language ) is an artificial language in gastronomy. The technical language of fine French cuisine has established itself in all countries, including the English-speaking ones.

The French kitchen language is taught as technical language within vocational lessons and handled as specialist knowledge. It is historically based and is used to z. B. to name the posts of the kitchen brigade as well as work techniques and dishes. French kitchen language is offered without a cross-occupational school subject French. The application and correct pronunciation of gastronomic terminology are part of the training of chefs.

The term kitchen language was included in his dictionary of the German language by the linguist Campe around 1800 . In addition, typical national kitchen languages ​​have also developed, for example in Austrian cuisine , which received impulses from all crown lands during the Habsburg monarchy , from which the typical Austrian kitchen language also developed.

See also

List of kitchen terms

Individual evidence

  1. Jens Winkel, Maike Busker, Lisa Schüler, Holger Limberg, Olaf Jäkel (eds.): Research into learning in the practical semester at the European University of Flensburg. European University of Flensburg , accessed on June 21, 2020 .
  2. ^ Claudia Göckel: French kitchen terms: application and pronunciation; systematically structured according to gastronomic subject areas . 3rd edition. Verlag Pfanneberg, Haan-Gruiten 2003, ISBN 3-8057-0512-3 , p. 4 .
  3. ^ Dictionary network - German dictionary by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .
  4. ^ The Graz kitchen language around 1800 - A contribution to the Austrian kitchen language. In: University of Graz . Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
  5. Heinz Dieter Pohl : The Austrian kitchen language: a lexicon of typical Austrian culinary specialties (with linguistic explanations) . Praesens Verlag , Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-7069-0452-0 , p. 20 .