The concept

GOURMANDISE

When you really enjoy eating or anything else that excites your sense of taste, you engage in what the French call gourmandise, (the picture below would be a good depiction of gourmandise if the participants in this little bash were really enjoying it), what this site is all about - and if this is one of your favorite pastimes, you are a gourmand.

The three G's.

Three G's Three pictures are worth at least 3000 words. Regardless of which G you fit into, there is material here for you, especially if you like to do your own cooking: recipes, ideas about cuisine and commentary about anything related to the act of tasting - good wines and other beverages, smoking, etc. and the customs, laws and other factors affecting our enjoyment.

We would like you, the site visitor to contribute to its contents and be a part of making it useful and fun to visit. Send us recipes, comments, jokes, news, ideas, threats, etc. Have you seen a food or restaurant review you want to respond to? How about a dining experience - good or bad - that you would like to share? Tell us about it; we may publish it here.

There is one more item: enjoyment is the subject of these pages. So, even if you are very serious about gastronomy and such, don't take this whole thing too seriously. Enjoy! Our friend to the left could lose her living quarters if she lets others see she is having fun. But most of us don't have to be so politically correct.

The links above or below will put you on your way to cruising this site and finding all kinds of goodies. Have fun!

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Café BS, anybody?

I took a table in a so-called "Café" in San Francisco and the first thing that caught my eye was the following list:

Caffé latte.
Café au lait.
Coffee.
Milchkaffee.
Café con leche.

For a few seconds, I felt like I was someplace in France or Spain. "How nice. This must be like a little dictionary to help travelers", I thought. But then I noticed prices, not all the same, following each item. Back on earth, I realized I was looking at a section of the menu.

People who order all these things in their own language just expect a cup of coffee with hot milk added or on the side. Except in the USA, that is, where nobody has thought of heating the milk so you don't end up with lukewarm swill. And "Coffee with milk", what everybody was ordering, did not appear anywhere on the menu. And why different prices? Maybe this was a front for currency speculators.