What's the difference between foodie and gourmet?

Foodie


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) johnmarian Foodie delights in Ghent, Belgium Facebook Twitter Pinterest De Superette, Ghent.
  • (2) The appetite for foodie apps continues unabated; Oliver's app was knocked off the top spot by Dishy, a UK app which features recipes sourced by a web designer and his mother, and apps such as Epicurious have been successful on both sides of the Atlantic.
  • (3) For a foodie reward, stroll to Rue Didot's row of boulangeries.
  • (4) OS reference: SM 728 279 The pit stop: Cwtch, St Davids This fantastic little restaurant has stolen the hearts of the foodies in St Davids and it has the awards to prove it.
  • (5) Meanwhile, alongside the arts, craft and foodie stalls of the type you would expect, there were practical workshops on everything from repairing your bike and foraging food for free, through to bread making and cooking on the cheap.
  • (6) We’re seeing restaurants push the boundaries and, for the first time, PE is experiencing a foodie culture of food trucks, pop-up diners and local markets, such as the monthly Valley Market : an alfresco celebration of food, artisanal crafts and a great place to meet genuine PE people.
  • (7) As The Official Foodie Handbook put it back in 1984: "Foodies consider food to be an art, on a level with painting or drama.
  • (8) "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.
  • (9) The Starbucks consumerist seal of approval either represents the end of a foodie trend or the start of a whole new Franken-pastry era.
  • (10) It’s better with the traditional juniper-heavy gins.” You might also argue that Fever-Tree represents everything that some have come to loathe about the new foodie world: an insistence on branding and artisanal ingredients for a product that serves the same purpose it always has, except at many times the price.
  • (11) It’s a very sophisticated foodie city.” The company has no institutional shareholders to answer to – with the business still split between Thirlwell and Harris.
  • (12) And the first-floor restaurant is a foodie’s dream, with a great range of hot foods, cold platters and homemade cakes.
  • (13) She became a vociferous critic both of the supermarkets, and of the 80s "foodie" culture as satirised in The Official Foodie Handbook by Ann Barr and Paul Levy, a volume she loathed ("To be sure they are skilful enough in the arts of toadying to their public and providing it with a little giggle at itself, but the meaning of satire in the true sense eludes them," she wrote in her review for Tatler ).
  • (14) I'm a foodie guy and most of what I do is the restaurant which is mainly locals but in the bar normally that table and that table would be contractors and they come here to watch the football.
  • (15) Both have the power to address some pretty big food issues in the world, but seaweed – especially in the form of a chip – is incredibly delicious and fits into mainstream snacking trends and lifestyle.” Read more like this: From vegan beef to fishless filets: meat substitutes are on the rise Are crickets the next foodie trend?
  • (16) It's the stuff of foodie fantasy: heaps of purple artichokes spill over piles of grooved and polished heritage tomatoes the colour of a newly painted post box.
  • (17) Famously fertile, over 110 small-scale wineries and 145 olive oil producers have sprung up across the region in the last 20 years, developing its reputation as Croatia's best corner for foodies.
  • (18) I will never belong to the foodie elite but I appreciate the riches I already enjoy as a hungry woman who can afford – and knows how to make – her next meal.
  • (19) Because the missing factor in all of this, is that the majority of the industry – cooking shows, recipe books, foodie displays, trendy markets – are aspirational.
  • (20) For most foodies, a balanced diet used to be about the nutritious ingredients that went into everyday dishes.

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).

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