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Gourmet vs Delicatessen - What's the difference?

gourmet | delicatessen |

As nouns the difference between gourmet and delicatessen

is that gourmet is a connoisseur in eating and drinking, someone who takes their food considerably more seriously than most while delicatessen is a shop that sells cooked or prepared foods ready for serving.

As an adjective gourmet

is fine.

gourmet

English

(wikipedia gourmet)

Adjective

(-)
  • (of food) fine
    • 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)
  • A connoisseur in eating and drinking, someone who takes their food considerably more seriously than most.

    • 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

    * foodie

    See also

    * gourmand * haute cuisine ----

    delicatessen

    English

    (wikipedia delicatessen)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) A shop that sells cooked or prepared foods ready for serving.
  • (plural only) Delicacies; exotic or expensive foods.

    • Derived terms

    * deli

    Related terms

    * delicacy

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