The Gift Exchange

This week I thought you might enjoy this collection of “gourmet” quotes. Some are pretty darn funny…

“A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.”
Kathy Mattea

“To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France; your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest your but your stomach. With hands trembling, you must approach the meal about which you have worried all day and risk dying of a stroke if it isn’t perfect.”
Ludwig Bemelmans, ‘La Bonne Table’ (1964)

“Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.”
Nora Ephron

“A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.”
James Beard

“People predestined to gourmandism are in general of medium height; they have round or square faces, bright eyes, small foreheads, short noses, full lips and rounded chins…..People to whom Nature has denied the capacity for such enjoyment, on the other hand, have long faces, noses, and eyes; no matter what their height, they seem to have a general air of elongation about them. They have flat dark hair, and above all lack healthy weight; it is undoubtedly they who invented trousers, to hide their thin shanks.”
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826) The Physiology of Taste.

“For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.”
Oscar Wilde

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