improvement vs mise en place

improvement

noun
  • The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering 

  • Increase; growth; progress; advance. 

  • Something which is improved 

  • Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises. 

  • A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition. 

  • The state of being improved; betterment; advance 

  • The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; practical application, for example of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse. 

mise en place

noun
  • development 

  • The preparations to cook, having the ingredients ready, such as cuts of meat, relishes, sauces, par-cooked items, spices, freshly chopped vegetables, and other components that are required for the menu and recipes ingredients measured out, washed, chopped and placed in individual bowls; and equipment such as spatulas and blenders prepared, and oven preheated. 

  • The preparation and layouts that are set up and used by line cooks at their stations in a commercial or restaurant kitchen. 

How often have the words improvement and mise en place occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )