mise
Example Sentences
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The mise en scène is sumptuously prepared with flourishes of rococo drollery.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
I understood the appeal of mise en place long before I ever embraced cleaning as I cooked.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
In place of complicated recipes requiring a full afternoon of mise en place, she offers shortcuts designed to reduce anxiety and, crucially, the risk of giving up altogether.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2024
We had a whole bunch of ideas, like a five- or six-page document of different ideas, and a mise en place race was one of them.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2023
It went to his heart to spend seven francs fifty centimes—a mise and a half—but the cheaper ones were really too hideous to buy peace with.
From The Devourers by Chartres, Annie Vivanti
