(n.) One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Equipment Let's be honest: good coffee depends heavily on equipment, which is why so many connoisseurs generally prefer to go out to a cafe with huge, shiny professional machines and baristas who have studied their craft in Milan and Melbourne, while their own over-complicated, underpowered espresso-makers gather dust in the kitchen.
(2) "It was part of his religion of nothing but the best – not for the elitist connoisseur but nothing but the best for the whole populace."
(3) Even connoisseurs of virtual rage had seen nothing like this since hundreds of online readers monstered a Guardian gap-year blog by a naive, teenaged student, Max Gogarty : a "tsunami of hate", his father called it.
(4) (A connoisseur, he also envies Apple stores where, as he put it, the cash register follows the customer.)
(5) The connoisseurs have assured me that the quality equals the best European microbreweries.
(6) That word "connoisseur" suggests grand authorities laying down the law, yet Penny argues that the connoisseur's eye can make great paintings live.
(7) Technically, on his school record, he's one of the people Grayling would class as "no great connoisseur", and yet his easy use of a whole range of legal terms suggested quite an advanced understanding of the process.
(8) But the county is not a destination stop for connoisseurs of political animus.
(9) Photograph: Alamy If you aren’t put off by a high density of boutique moustaches and pedantic coffee connoisseurs, Stoneybatter is a worthwhile deviation from Temple Bar, Grafton Street and the other well-trodden tourist zones.
(10) O’Farrell told the commission that he was no “wine connoisseur” but that he was certain he would have remembered receiving the bottle.
(11) Connoisseurs of British indecision will greet Sir Howard Davies's announcement on Tuesday as an all-time, blue-chip, 24-carat masterpiece of the genre.
(12) (As any Bond connoisseur will know, Spectre is the toweringly evil Special Executive for counter-intelligence, terrorism, revenge and extortion, run on a freelance basis by kitten stroking Ernst Stavro Blofeld, which first popped up in the Thunderball novel in 1961.)
(13) "Our politicians are heroes," joked Edmund Cocquyt, a Flemish connoisseur of bars who is making an inventory of every pub in Flanders.
(14) Connoisseurs of accountability may be intrigued to note that those who pay the piper are most able to call the tunes when they are within earshot, like voters to MPs.
(15) We can never know, but it sure seems like only a handful of connoisseurs read through them.
(16) Assembled with guidance from beer writer Zac Avery, the Attic's list of US, German and UK beers (from breweries such as Bristol's Arbor, Kernel, Hardknott, Magic Rock, Thornbridge) will bring a tear of joy to the eye of any craft beer connoisseur.
(17) Historically, proto-hipsters have been connoisseurs – people who deviate from the norm.
(18) Billroth who laid the foundation of modern abdominal surgery by performing his pioneer operations was also an excellent musician and connoisseur of the arts.
(19) In the face of daily threats of suicide and self-harm, the guards struggle as amateur psychologists and social workers become connoisseurs of despair.
(20) It will be a fight for connoisseurs of tack, of which there is no shortage at any given time.
Gastronome
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Gastronomer
Example Sentences:
(1) In the dark days of Soho's gastronomic life, Andrew Edmunds held a candle for great quality, simple, seasonal cooking, and the flame has never really gone out.
(2) Oliveira recently opened a sister restaurant next door, Esquina Mocotó , with a fancier menu and slightly higher prices, which has been received just as rapturously as the original by SP's gastronomics brigade.
(3) For this is one of the defining characteristics of the true British food snob: a conviction that our high street food culture is vulgar and awful , that it's a slurry pit of overwhelming choice underpinned by little in the way of values or conviction or tradition, which only encourages gastronomic deviants like the Christopher Pooles of this world.
(4) Click here to view video The premise of season one was that Coogan had been commissioned by the Observer to set out on a gastronomic tour of the north of England , from the Inn at Whitewell in the Trough of Bowland to the Yorke Arms in the Yorkshire Dales.
(5) In addition to the live music, and DJ sets by Zero 7 and Greg Wilson, the festival has an important gastronomic component: L’Enclume’s Simon Rogan, Murano’s Angela Hartnett and Polpo’s Russell Norman will all be helping to prepare Wilderness’s “long table banquets”, with extra nosh by the chefs and bakers of St John.
(6) In fact, Uggie was off for his first Gallic gastronomic experience and like a true star was giving the press and cameras the runaround.
(7) Until 2002 he was very much a woozy hangover from the 90s, a man who found fame on television not because of any great gastronomic talent – he was no Delia – but because of the way he mainlined enthusiasm down the lens.
(8) And yet for a few weeks last year Paltrow joined Batali, along with the New York Times food writer Mark Bittman and the Spanish actress Claudia Bassols, on a freewheeling, gastronomic tour of Spain for a major TV series.
(9) San Sebastián officially starts its year of culture on 23 January, and more than 400 projects are in progress, several drawing on the city’s extraordinary gastronomic reputation.
(10) Along with three other gutsy gastronomes, I am here to taste the results.
(11) The prolific Winterbottom is also set to release his sequel to Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's gastronomic tour The Trip, which premiered at Sundance last month.
(12) In some cases they do not limit themselves to gastronomical pleasures: several places have a reputation for doubling as elite brothels.
(13) There is also a smart but pricey gastronomic restaurant on the top floor, Les Ombres, terrace of which is opposite the Eiffel Tower.
(14) An astronomical victory, but not necessarily a gastronomical one.
(15) Putting Paltrow and Batali together on the road for a gastronomic trip through Spain, a country that does not so much celebrate ham as fetishise it, should therefore have been a recipe for disaster.
(16) Nutritional habits and nutritional status of 142 pupils of a Gastronomic School Complex were examined from the standpoint of the year of school, school marks and place of residence.
(17) The Portuguese gastronomic speciality is bacalhau .
(18) What they came back with showed what happens when you put most of the politicians, media, and big-boy jobs in all-powerful, recession-proof London: sharp economic inequality produces gastronomic inequality, too.
(19) Neighbouring Richmond Hill is a gastronome’s delight.
(20) We used to be the joke of Europe in terms of our food quality but now we stand as one of the places where people come for a gastronomic experience.