gourmet, n.All

A Gourmet is someone who knows where to buy a hot knish in Cairo.

A Gourmet is one for whom the correct preparation and consumption of a cheese souffte has assumed the combined importance of art, science, and Holy Communion.

Gourmet is one culture's vice coupled to another's sustenance.

A Gourmet is anyone who, when you fail to finish something strange and revolting, remarks that it's an acquired taste and that you're leaving the best part.

Gourmet is a food fetishist.

A Gourmet is a glutton who reads French.

The Gourmet is one for whom a complete lack of caution is a true sign. He has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom.

A Gourmet is a glutton with a tux.