Culinary Quote by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned…

— Abraham Hayward

I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That…

— Joel Robuchon

“It's not important whether someone is a gourmet. Everyone wants to eat and knows that food is crucial to live. But everyone has his…

— Kyung-Ran Jo

“When they heard that someone was full figured and liked cooking & eating, most men imagined someone who was quiet and domestic; someone whose…

— Asako Yuzuki

“My dear man, a gourmand is a gentleman with the talent and fortitude to continue eating even when he is not hungry.”

— Richard C. Morais

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

— Philip W Haberman

Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having…

— Ken Keyes Jr

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

— Elbert Hubbard

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with…

— Joseph Addison

I don't like to use 'gourmet' because it has become so overused and abused.

— Arthur Schwartz

Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that was before I heard…

— Mark Kurlansky