Piquant vs Delicious - What's the difference?
piquant | delicious |
Engaging; charming.
Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; stimulating.
* 2000 , Lynn Bedford Hall, Best of Cooking in South Africa (page 2000)
* 2005 , Clifford A. Wright, Some like it hot: spicy favorites from the world's hot zones
* 2009 , Sara Engra, Katie Luber, Kimberly Toqe, The Spice Kitchen: Everyday Cooking with Organic Spices (page 9)
(archaic) Causing hurt feelings; scathing.
Pleasing to taste; tasty.
(colloquial) Metaphorically pleasing to taste; pleasing to the eyes or mind.
As adjectives the difference between piquant and delicious
is that piquant is engaging; charming while delicious is pleasing to taste; tasty.piquant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- These chops are baked in a piquant sauce containing fruit, honey, cinnamon, lemon and port, all of which reduces to a spicy syrup.
- Elsewhere in South America, excepting Bahia in Brazil, one does not encounter piquant cuisine, although one may stumble on a piquant dish now and then...
- French charcuterie relies on cloves in the quatre épices, or four-spice powder, for seasoning fine sausages and piquant marinades.
