Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Gourmet Steaks - Definition Of Gourmet

I would guess most people dont know everything about "gourmet" -- so I thought I'd go into that for a bit; before talking about gourmet steaks. Bon appetit.

To give you the best, uninterrupted reading experience, I'll give you the links first: Delicious samples from various gourmet steaks -- namely,

* 2 (18 oz.) T-Bone Steaks
* 2 (6 oz.) Filet Mignons
* 2 (11 oz.) Boneless Strips

The price of this product is 39% lower than originally. I don't know if it will, but it might go up, so buy at this good price :).



If you liked the gourmet steaks, above, you might want to have some recipes to have fun with, also:

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The word gourmet is french -- meaning a wine broker, or a person who is employed by a wine dealer to taste wine. First the word "friand" - meaning "refined palate" - was used as describing one of the requisities for being a gourmet. First both gourmet and gourmand was referred to as people who ate too much - a connotation that only gourmand, of the two, still has. The guy behind the first restaurant guide, Grimod de la Reynière, was the person who - in releasing this guide - made the word gourmet respectable.

Gourmet is associated to culinary arts -- culinary arts, according to wikipedia, being defined as "the art of preparing and/or cooking foods" -- fine food and drink, or so called "haute cuisine". haute cuisine is food that often comes in small meals - which is foregone (?) by intricate preparations and presentations. The term is used differently, depending on who you are asking -- some see it as asomething positive - a person that has passion and a refined taste or similar - and some see it as snobby and elitistic.

The word gourmet is used in different ways - sometimes to describe a meal, a class of restaurant or a cuisine ­- or, simply, to describe an ingredient; that looks nice, is very sophisticated or of high quality. A rising income, globalization - which has carried with it globalization of health, nutrition concerns and taste - has led, in the 2000s to an increase in the increase in American gourmet market. A specific foods is often divided into sub-categories - "gourmet" being one.

Sometimes the word gourmet describes a person -- being anything from a person that is great at distinguishing foods from each other, to somebody who knows very well how to prepare food or knows the art of food. A gourmand is this, plus it is somebody who just likes to eat a lot. Events these persons referred to as having fine taste frequent are wine tastings; possibly chocolate testing (?). There is a gourmet tourism, where people travel to try out different foods, wines, food production regions and restaurants.

Did you get any value out of this post? Tell me about your experiences of gourmet food, or gourmet steaks :). Would be cool to hear.

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