What's the difference between gastronomer and gourmet?

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.

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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