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“I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.”

Mean Use Sound Eating Cooking Wine Meals Corn Flakes Gourmet Sherry Casseroles Corn Flakes

Author:Julia Child

“A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet.”

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Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.”

“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”

“Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.”

Ifs Believe Sometimes Asks Eating Atheist Dinner Finished Cooks Invites Magnificent Tempted Gourmet

Book:Speaking my mind: selected speeches

Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches

“The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy will remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the dewy first light of morning when gardens are at their best. Such a memory involves itself with the food and is one of the pleasures of eating. (pg. 326, The Pleasures of Eating)”

People Knows Should Firsts Light Remember Memories Pleasure Morning Growing Healthy Eating Garden Plant Mere Vegetables Gourmet

Book:What Are People For?: Essays

Source: What Are People For?: Essays

“Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.”

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Author:Marya Hornbacher

“After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs.”

Giving Culture White Eating Praise Satisfaction Magazines Criticize Gourmet Napkins Porcelain Burping

Book:Language Maven Strikes Again

Source: Language Maven Strikes Again