How to Use bouillabaisse in a Sentence

bouillabaisse

noun
  • Warmer weather calls for trout, lobster, or an epic bowl of bouillabaisse.
    — Saveur Editors, Saveur, 8 May 2020
  • Lobster tempura, bouillabaisse and milk and honey ice cream are back on the menu.
    — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 1 May 2018
  • Some plays are bouillabaisses, crammed with everything a playwright can put in the pot.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Ceramic grasshoppers and bouillabaisse are nowhere to be found.
    — Alexander Lobrano, WSJ, 11 July 2019
  • Broth for bouillabaisse distills into a piercing seafood liqueur.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • French classics such as bouillabaisse, pate and salad nicoise share space with shrimp lo mein and pasta al pomodoro on the menu.
    — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 June 2017
  • Gisin was kind enough to share with me both his seafood bouillabaisse and his vision for how to demystify measurement.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Some of those species can turn up in bouillabaisse, added to the soup as an ingredient with the colloquial name of gurnard.
    — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The first is a classic bouillabaisse of assorted seafood in a saffron, tomato, and fennel broth.
    — Dashae Engler, Midwest Living, 8 Apr. 2026
  • For an entrée, consider coq-au-vin, bouillabaisse or the sweet potato and coconut curry over brown rice and lentils.
    — Linda Bladholm, miamiherald, 15 Aug. 2017
  • In Europe the green crabs’ relatives are used to flavor bouillabaisse.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Many people are familiar with bouillabaisse, the classic French fish stew.
    — Daniel Boulud, ELLE Decor, 22 Apr. 2014
  • Travel, like a bouillabaisse, is the happy result of good things coming together.
    — Rick Steves, Sun Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Once you’re done peeling, save the shells and heads for creamy shrimp bisque or savory shrimp stock that will add depth and flavor to a bouillabaisse, paella, or seafood gumbo.
    — Mary Tomlinson, Southern Living, 30 June 2020
  • Classics like French onion soup and bouillabaisse share the menu with the oh-so-American burger — served on brioche, of course.
    — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2017
  • Here, the bouillabaisse is made and served in the same traditional way I was taught by my Marseillaise friend.
    — Georgeanne Brennan, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Other strong options include the lobster roll, bouillabaisse, and shrimp-and-lobster fritters.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2026
  • My son took a couple of unrelated Lego kits and mixed them up into a surreal bouillabaisse.
    — Rob Adams, WIRED, 14 May 2012
  • In the train’s glamorous dining cars, passengers dine on local dishes like laksa bouillabaisse.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The new culinary wave began about 10 years ago, going beyond bouillabaisse and pieds paquets (stewed lamb’s feet and tripe).
    — Julia Sammut With Benjamin Kemper, Saveur, 3 July 2024
  • For entrees, order the seafood fra diavolo, the bouillabaisse, and Thai coconut curry shrimp.
    — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Thanks to the brothy, thicker-than-bouillabaisse, thinner-than-sauce situation in which the fish is poached, the fillets simply cannot overcook.
    — Alison Roman, New York Times, 17 June 2019
  • Ms Scales might have devoted more than a few pages of her engaging and informative bouillabaisse to these perils.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • Marseille’s bouillabaisse follows a 1980 charter dictating which fish can go in the pot.
    — Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 12 May 2026
  • With a long name and an even longer list of ingredients, bouillabaisse is seaside city Marseille's gift to France's culinary canon.
    — Foren Clark, CNN, 30 May 2022
  • And that is exactly how I was taught to make and to serve bouillabaisse by a fourth-generation Marseillaise.
    — Georgeanne Brennan, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Cod fish in saffron sauce, traditional bouillabaisse and a very Normandy apple tart Tatin.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • The menu includes traditional French dishes like steak tartare, bone marrow, salad niçoise and bouillabaisse.
    — Shaena Montanari, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 2020
  • Shrimp Bouillabaisse Traditional bouillabaisse is a marvelous dish that requires many kinds of seafood and a lot of time to make.
    — Fox News, 16 Dec. 2015
  • Her shores were washed with a seething bouillabaisse of fish, her gardens laden with good things; Charolais cattle grazed the fields, chickens from Bresse pecked in farmyards.
    — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018

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