(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.
Gourmet
Definition:
(n.) A connoisseur in eating and drinking; an epicure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Christmas theme doesn't end there; "America's Christmas Hometown" also has Santa's Candy Castle, a red-brick building with turrets that was built by the Curtiss Candy Company in the 1930s and sells gourmet candy canes in abundance.
(2) The gourmet Monsieur Bleu only opened last year and is already a favourite power-lunch venue for art world movers and shakers, but the prices are not cheap (à la carte from €30pp).
(3) Fastforward to 2005, and the Gate Gourmet workforce – again, mostly female and Asian – were dismissed after assembling in the canteen to question the company's employment policies and then refusing to go back to work.
(4) 12-24 University Avenue (028-9032 6589, commongrounds.co.uk ) Rocket & Relish Rocket and Relish Chef-owner Chris Boyd started out selling gourmet burgers at festivals from a converted Airstream caravan.
(5) Not that I'd dare tell everyone to be vegetarian, but I can warn those silly gourmets defending F&M's right to sell this "delicacy", that come the revolution, it won't be the guillotine for them, just tubes of grain and fat pumped endlessly down their throats.
(6) The Wellspring Collective – they're good, they've dropped their prices down to compete with other shops, like Ganja Gourmet , right here.
(7) Food shortages are not immediately apparent in upscale supermarkets such as Gourmet in Zamalek, an affluent district in central Cairo, but the rise in prices of imported goods are plain to see.
(8) When I interviewed gourmet coffee guru Gwilym Davies three years ago, shortly before he took the World Barista Championship crown in the US, he told me that we were in the third wave of coffee.
(9) I eat dinner with my wife; she is a gourmet cook and her food beats most of the best restaurants in New York.
(10) "I actually wanted to buck the trend and move to Soho, but then I realised the rent's cheaper here," says Simon Prockter, who arrived in January to set up HouseBites , a gourmet takeaway service for people who want a quick, cheap meal cooked and hand-delivered by local chefs.
(11) EU companies catch sharks in the Atlantic, Indian, Mediterranean, and Pacific oceans, and are the largest exporter of shark fins to Hong Kong and mainland China where they are used for a gourmet soup.
(12) Inside it's all old-world charm, with antiques scattered around, log fires, dark panelling, a billiards room, two pianos, a bar with 40 single malts and gourmet dinners by candlelight.
(13) I now have both, but give me Morrisons supermarket over a gourmet deli any day.
(14) Three-course gourmet vegetarian feasts include local organic wines.
(15) "Foodie" has now pretty much everywhere replaced "gourmet", perhaps because the latter more strongly evokes privilege and a snobbish claim to uncommon sensory discrimination – even though those qualities are rampant among the "foodies" themselves.
(16) First, it became a “gourmet island”, home to Kadeau , the celebrated restaurant of the local Michelin-starred chef Rasmus Kofoed.
(17) Everyone wants a slice of the pie, selling plants and resin, marijuana-laced gourmet food, pipes, growing equipment, cultivation courses, balms, you name it.
(18) She declined to provide details but said the events will be a spin on a recent contest between two friends to make a gourmet dish out of a Big Mac meal.
(19) • khaomangai.com Grilled Cheese Grill I've never met a grilled cheese sandwich I didn't like, but this lot take it into food-geek territory: everything from the simple "taste of your childhood", to elaborate constructions featuring bespoke breads and gourmet cheeses.
(20) Artisan bakers are also seeing an upsurge in demand for "gourmet bread": sourdough at £4 a loaf and others such as Borodinsky (made with Russian rye).