mise en place
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Mise en place ({{IPA|fr|mi zɑ̃ ˈplas}}) is a French culinary phrase which means "putting in place" or "gather". It refers to the setup required before cooking, and is often used in professional kitchens to refer to organizing and arranging the ingredients (e.g., cuts of meat, relishes, sauces, par-cooked items, spices, freshly chopped vegetables, and other components) that a cook will require for the menu items that are expected to be prepared during a shift.Montagné, Prosper. Larousse Gastronomique. Jennifer Harvey Lang (ed.). New York: Crown, 1988. Second English edition.
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The practice can be applied in home kitchens.{{cite web |url=http://www.reluctantgourmet.com/mise-en-place/ |title=The Reluctant Gourmet, "Mise en place" |date=17 July 2012 |access-date=10 February 2013}}{{cite book |last=Ruhlman |first=Michael |date=14 September 2018 |title=Ruhlman's Twenty |url=http://ruhlman.com/my-books/ |publisher=Chronicle Books |isbn=978-0811876438 |access-date=27 January 2015 |page=13 |quote=There's no reason it won't work for you in your kitchen at home.}}
In the kitchen, the phrase is used as a noun (i.e., the setup of the array of ingredients), a verb (i.e., the process of preparing) and a state of mind.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l8tUCwAAQBAJ |title=Work Clean: The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind |last=Charnas |first=Dan |date=2016 |publisher=Rodale |isbn=9781623365936 |language=en}} The term's broader meanings can be applied to classrooms, hospitals, IT departments, and elsewhere.
Use outside of cooking
The term has also been used outside of cooking: psychologists Weisberg, et al., used the phrase to refer to "how one's stance towards a given environment places constraints on what one feels able to do within that environment, and how these assessments and predispositions impact the process of preparing to act." They used the term in a study of how a school became safer after security measures{{snd}}like metal detectors and bars on the windows{{snd}}were removed, leading to the unexpected outcome.{{Cite journal|last=Weisberg|first=Deena Skolnick |display-authors=etal |date=June 2014|title=Mise en place: setting the stage for thought and action|url=https://kathyhirshpasek.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2015/08/Weisberg-Hirsh-Pasek-et-al.TICS1313.pdf|journal=Trends in Cognitive Sciences|volume=18 |issue=6 |pages=276–278 |doi=10.1016/j.tics.2014.02.012|pmid=24684854 |s2cid=35633523 |access-date=May 31, 2016}}
See also
References
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External links
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- [http://www.hertzmann.com/articles/2003/mise/ À la carte webpage discussing mise en place]
- [https://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/08/11/338850091/for-a-more-ordered-life-organize-like-a-chef NPR Morning Edition story about mise en place]