quotes about Gourmet
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We often feed the critic gourmet meals and starve the rest.
-- Angeles Arrien -
I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford such an expensive luxury
-- Anna Kournikova -
I say everything's about company. A gourmet meal with an ***** is a horrible meal. A hot dog with an interesting person is an amazing meal.
-- Chris Rock -
There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city.
-- Cornelia Otis Skinner -
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For a gourmet wine is not a drink but a condiment, provided that your host has chosen correctly.
-- Edouard de Pomiane -
I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.
-- James Beard -
No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.
-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.
-- Kathy Mattea -
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Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them.
-- Ken Keyes Jr. -
I'm not really into gourmet food; I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment.
-- Lee Child -
A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost.
-- Lucius Beebe -
Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.
-- Ludwig BemelmansSource : Ludwig Bemelmans (1964). “La bonne table”
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To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.
-- Ludwig BemelmansSource : Ludwig Bemelmans (1964). “La bonne table”
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A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom.
-- M. F. K. FisherSource : Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.624, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and then he will share it. A gourmet should want to share.
-- Mark KurlanskySource : Mark Kurlansky (2013). “Choice Cuts”, p.26, Random House
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Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that was before I heard the term "foodie." I am still not sure that a gourmet is a good thing to be, but it must be better than a foodie.
-- Mark KurlanskySource : Mark Kurlansky (2013). “Choice Cuts”, p.23, Random House
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A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating.
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Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners.
-- Nicole MonesSource : Jenna Blum, Maggie O'Farrell, Molly Gloss, Nicole Mones, Elizabeth Benedict (2010). “The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels”, p.724, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Even the most astute chefs seek out the assistance of Celine Labaune, owner of Gourmet Attitude, because they know they can rely on her keen senses and deep understanding of the truffle trade.
-- Thomas Keller -
I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.
-- Will Ferrell -
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I want to go as far as it will take me. I would love to go pro, but if that doesn't happen, I am a gourmet chef and would like to open my own restaurant.
-- Paige VanZant