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Usage examples of gourmet.

My wife was a gourmet cook, and she went all ut on that dinner, gazpacho, pasta with black olives and scallions, lamb chops with an herb crust and ions and shoefresh mint sauce, caramelized on string candied sweet potatoes, mile-high apple pie.

He dodged a stream of curried kooftah a Persian gourmet would have been proud of and took another step toward the controls.

The Roebuck was one of those few country pubs that opened fairly promptly at six of an evening, but it relied for its main trade on the gourmet menu from about half-past seven till ten.

His feet dangled over the debris trench which circled the perimeter of the table, and which the suit assured him was reeking in the manner approved by Affronter gourmets.

On this lovely Saturday in the early afternoon, the tourists and even what appeared to be some locals were out in droves, enjoying the Marina district, escorting hordes of children through the Exploratorium, eating gourmet picnic items and feeding the ducks in the lake with the leftovers.

I did meet with a group of interesting scientists, learned of some major discoveries in the science of smell, wore two perfumes that may or may not revolutionize the fragrance business, and ate several bags of gourmet saltwater taffy, made with salt from the Great Salt Lake.

She unbent enough to smile at Leonard, and after that, every time Lisa finished another book, they went to some place with white tablecloths and gourmet food.

It was hand-priced, and novelty candies huddled brightly next to gourmet selections.

In 1979, Frank married Elaine Eide Moe, of Sacramento, California, who is not only a gourmet cook but an active jazz band pianist.

She had been thinking about their Saturday night pizza, which Helen insisted on ordering from one of those gourmet places that served pizza with things like shrimp and chicken fajitas and even stuffed grape leaves.

Then he had somehow transformed those plebian chicken breasts into a gourmet feast with crisp, colorful stir-fried vegetables aromatic with sesame oil and crunchy with peanuts, and served with fluffy-steamed rice.

Food on polar survey vessels, oil rigs, and research cruises is unexpectedly gourmet in its preparation and necessarily ample in its portions.

She ate gourmet cookies, dried apricots, semisweet chocolate and Wheat Thins dipped in raspberry preserves, making as big a mess as possible as she went, deriving a small, vengeful satisfaction from her destruction.

Local bike tours will rent you a bike, take you on one of their organized excursions to wineries, provide a gourmet lunch featuring local foodstuffs, and also carry any wine you purchase and even help with shipping it home.

This would be like saying that no individuals can move beyond the oral stage until they become gourmet cooks.