Gourmet Quotes

62 quotes by 52 authors

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking. — James Beard
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. — James Beard
Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it… — Alton Brown
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… — Lee Child
A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow. — Kathy Mattea
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… — Ken Keyes Jr.
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… — William Safire
But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is,… — J. B. Priestley
The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation,… — Abraham Hayward
For a gourmet wine is not a drink but a condiment, provided that your host has chosen correctly. — Edouard de Pomiane
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… — Ludwig Bemelmans
Today's food trucks are far from cheap eats on wheels, there are some seriously gourmet offerings on four wheels. — Tyler Florence
What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up… — Kurt Cobain
It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the… — Russell Baker
It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet. — George Will
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… — M.F.K. Fisher
Speaking of dust, â€˜out of which we came and to which we shall return,â€™ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
There is no English equivalent for the French word flÃ¢neur. Cassell's dictionary defines flÃ¢neur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems… — Cornelia Otis Skinner
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.… — Mark Kurlansky
Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from… — Mark Kurlansky

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