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Bourguignon
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bourguignon
English
Etymology
Borrowed from en fr bourguignon.
Proper noun
The Romance Burgundian language or dialect.
en 1843 The biographical dictionary of the Society for the diffusion of Useful Knowledge Great Britain He published an edition of Virgil in the Bourguignon dialect, with notes, at Dijon, in 1831.
en 2008 Gillian Sankoff; Miriam Meyerhoff; Naomi Nagy Social Lives in Language--sociolinguistics and Multilingual Speech 9027218633 Another consequence is that French has become increasingly different from Oïl varieties, which cannot be considered as French dialects today; Franc- Comtois, Walloon, Picard, Norman, Gallo, Poitevin-Saintongeais, Bourguignon-Morvandiau, Lorrain [...]
en 2016 Fanny Madeline; Meredith Cohen Space in the Medieval West 1317052005 [And] instead of recovering the Bourguignon dialect, he recovered good Parisian French!
Noun
en bourguignon.
2 February 2007 w:Rowley Leigh Panic is the mother of invention https://www.ft.com/content/c9e12320-b2bd-11db-99ca-0000779e2340 Oxtail, long thick pieces of it, cut almost through at each swishing articulation of its joints, were hanging in the butcher’s window and I resolved to feed my Sunday lunch guests with a robust stew. Or I might do a Bourguignon and braise the oxtail with red wine, chunks of bacon, button onions and fresh or dried mushrooms.
28 December 2013 w:Adam Platt The Platt List https://web.archive.org/web/20140104161051/http://nymag.com/restaurants/wheretoeat/2014/adam-platt-restaurant-list/index7.html The latest prominent New York chef to rediscover his love for old-fashioned French cooking is Daniel Boulud’s famous disciple Andrew Carmellini, whose glittering new full-service Noho brasserie, Lafayette, features soft scrambled eggs “vol-au-vent” with chèvre and leeks for breakfast; crocks of soft, gamy tripe “Bourguignon” for dinner;
30 October 2020 w:Melissa Clark Looking for Comfort? Turn to This Beef Stew https://web.archive.org/web/20201030162049/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/dining/beef-stew-recipe.html I’d forgotten all about beef stew, seduced by the likes of wine-braised short ribs and fancy Bourguignon. But while braises and Bourguignons may be more impressively company-worthy than stew, they’re not apropos to our current national mood — or my personal one, at least.
26 December 2023 Stephanie Breijo The best dishes of 2023, according to our food writers https://web.archive.org/web/20231226171047/https://www.latimes.com/food/list/best-dishes-los-angeles-southern-california-2023 Craig Hopson’s multiday process also ensures that every drop of his Bourguignon is packed with flavor due to the oxtails’ 24-hour marination with red wine, mirepoix and herbs.
Adjective
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en bourguignon.
14 September 2008 Terry Durack New York's Bar Boulud is a buzzy brasserie with a dedicated charcuterie kitchen...could paté be the next sushi? https://web.archive.org/web/20220706132437/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/reviews/new-york-s-bar-boulud-is-a-buzzy-brasserie-with-a-dedicated-charcuterie-kitchen-could-pate-be-the-next-sushi-926543.html [P]até Bourguignon is a gutsy guinea fowl, red-wine and mushroom terrine;
8 December 2012 Christopher Hirst Books of the Year 2012: Food https://web.archive.org/web/20121212180357/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/books-of-the-year-2012-food-8390322.html The relatively simple risotto Bourguignon with a soft poached egg and red wine occupies four big pages.
21 April 2018 w:Tom Parker Bowles Beware Greeks bearing bills... Forget the 'rustic charm' cliches, Meraki just serves great quality food. But it isn't cheap! https://web.archive.org/web/20260607053911/https://www.dailymail.com/home/event/article-5641755/No-cliches-rustic-charm-Meraki-just-great-quality-food.html We take skidoos up to Alpele, a tiny Alpine restaurant above Lech. Where we eat, yup, you’ve got it, peerless cheese fondue, plus fondue Bourguignon and Chinoiserie.
1 January 2020 w:Melissa Clark Mushroom Bourguignon https://web.archive.org/web/20200101020427/https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020738-mushroom-bourguignon Serve mushroom Bourguignon over polenta, noodles or mashed potatoes, topped with fried mushrooms and parsley.
9 October 2021 w:Jancis Robinson The unique class of Burgundy 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211102194441/https://www.ft.com/content/4def8425-112e-4268-a9ee-cffd5d82c009 For Pierre de Benoist, who looks after Domaine A & P de Villaine in Bouzeron on behalf of his uncle Aubert de Villaine of the world-famous Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, 2021 will be “a vintage that sorts the men from the boys, a vintage that’s typically Bourguignon, not Mediterranean”.
25 August 2023 w:Steve Cuozzo Forget Balthazar — this NYC French restaurant is where the pretty people are going https://web.archive.org/web/20230825200212/https://nypost.com/2023/08/25/forget-balthazar-cafe-chelsea-is-nycs-hottest-restaurant/ The traditionally chewy hanger steak is grilled over a wood fire, lightly brushed with sauce Bourguignon and sliced into five toothsome segments.
12 September 2023 Stephanie Breijo Experimental Korean restaurant Baroo reopens with ‘life cycle’ tasting menu downtown https://web.archive.org/web/20230912180232/https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2023-09-12/baroo-reopens-tasting-menu-downtown-los-angeles-arts-district-shirley-brasserie Craig Hopson of New York City’s Le Cirque and local bistro pop-up Electric Bleu is leading the kitchen at Shirley Brasserie, which serves a range of French and broader-European classics such as chicken liver mousse with duck gelée; truffled risotto; oxtail Bourguignon; escargots; French onion soup; mussels in white wine; and lobster pasta.
30 May 2026 w:Jay Rayner Why the best British food is actually French https://www.ft.com/content/3c6a2f00-5d92-46c7-8dbf-f5c340d02ff2 Rhodes’ most important book, New British Classics, does include recipes for his faggots and that bread and butter pudding. And very nice they are too. But it also has instructions for a “Champagne fish sauce”, a sole meunière, albeit by another name, and “pigs’ trotters Bourguignon”.
Related terms
en beef Bourguignon
See also
Wiktionary's coverage of Bourguignon terms
en Languages
French
Pronunciation
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Ltrlg-Bourguignon.wav
Noun
m +
fr Burgundy, a <<geographic region>> and <<former province>>, now part of the <<adr:pref/Bourgogne-Franche-Comté>>, <<c/France>> Burgundian m
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