Answers to Practice Exercises: Gourmand and Gourmet
(a) Actor and director Orson Welles was a committed gourmand who thought nothing of washing down a roasted duck and a huge porterhouse steak with three or four bottles of wine.
(b) "For a true gourmet in the first few decades of the twentieth century, Paris was the heart's home, the place that mattered, a shrine for everyone who believed that eating well was the best revenge."
(Ruth Reichl, Remembrance of Things Paris.
Modern Library, 2004)
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