What's the difference between connoisseur and gastronomer?

Connoisseur


Definition:

  • (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.

Gastronomer


Definition:

  • (n.) One fond of good living; an epicure.

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.

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