Gourmet is a cultural ideal associated with the culinary arts of fine food and drink, or haute cuisine, which is characterised by elaborate preparations and presentations of large meals of small, often quite rich courses.
The term and its associated practices are usually used positively to describe people of refined taste and passion. For some, it holds a negative connotation of elitism or snobbery.
Gourmet Food Selections
Fine Foods - Specialty Cheeses - Exquisite Gifts
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Gourmet implies quality, something uncommonly good. A person of indiscriminate taste is a Gourmet. A gourmet looks for uncommon characteristics in the food or beverages that make it different. For example, everyone can roast and grind beans. But, to come-up with a combination that will make it different with others and have uncommonly good flavor wil make it Gourmet coffee.
The following is a pretty good explanation in my opinion.http://www.foodreference.com/html/art-go…
Gourmet just means it’s made with expensive ingredients like black truffles and fillet mignon for example.
Well once I asked a chef he said cooked the old fashion way with nice spices and combinations dressed it up with a modern style (looks so good I don’t want to mess it up by eating it)!