Gourmet vs Culinary - What's the difference?
gourmet | culinary |
(of food) fine
A connoisseur in eating and drinking, someone who takes their food considerably more seriously than most.
Relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking.
Of, or relating to a kitchen
As adjectives the difference between gourmet and culinary
is that gourmet is fine while culinary is relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking.As a noun gourmet
is a connoisseur in eating and drinking, someone who takes their food considerably more seriously than most.gourmet
English
(wikipedia gourmet)Adjective
(-)- Gourmet coffee is just like regular coffee, only better.
- We need to go to the gourmet grocery store to get the exotic ingredients for this recipe.
Usage notes
Gourmet has become somewhat debased by marketing usage, and is considered by some a pretentious middlebrow term. Such users tend to prefer terms such as (artisanal) (emphasizing the craft) for fine food.Coordinate terms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
Gourmet emphasizes interest in quality of food and enjoyment of eating, sometimes to an obsessive degree: someone who “lives to eat rather than eating to live”. By contrast, a gourmand is someone more interested in quantity of food than quality.Synonyms
* foodieSee also
* gourmand * haute cuisine ----culinary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Her culinary skills were excellent.