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Food cliches that have to go!

by Jenise » Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:10 pm

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Re: Food cliches that have to go!

by Rahsaan » Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:20 pm

gourmet

artisanal

house made/made in house
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by Jeff Grossman » Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:28 pm

Rahsaan wrote:gourmet

artisanal

house made/made in house

Certainly both "gourmet" and "artisanal" are over-used. But what would you say instead of "house made" if, um, well, the food was made in-house?
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by Jenise » Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:46 pm

It would never have occurred to me to object to 'house-made'. Maybe I need to live in a bigger city to tire of that, but as long as it's true it's welcome to me when I see it on a menu, especially if charcuterie's involved.
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Re: Food cliches that have to go!

by Jenise » Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:48 pm

Clicked SEND too fast. I meant to add to the above that I haven't yet seen it misused. The problem with words like gourmet, and now artisinal, is that they've been adopted by processed food manufacturers and rendered meaningless. Haven't seen that yet with 'house-made'.
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by Mark Lipton » Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:58 pm

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Re: Food cliches that have to go!

by Rahsaan » Thu Jun 20, 2013 1:16 pm

Jeff Grossman/NYC wrote:Certainly both "gourmet" and "artisanal" are over-used. But what would you say instead of "house made" if, um, well, the food was made in-house?


I suppose 'house made' has a stricter definition than the more fanciful 'gourmet' and 'artisanal', but it can also be over-used and stretched to the limits (e.g. Arby's house made chips).

My other problem is that it's no longer a signal of quality, which is the real value for customers. Restauranteurs catch on quickly, so too often 'house made' now just means that the restaurant is using buzzwords and buzzconcepts, and the product may be worse than if they had bought said item from a specialty purveyor down the block.
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Re: Food cliches that have to go!

by Jo Ann Henderson » Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:49 pm

Locally sourced :roll:
Organic :roll:
Natural :roll:
Gastrique :roll:
Sous Vide :roll:
artisanal/artisan :roll:
"...To undersalt deliberately in the name of dietary chic is to omit from the music of cookery the indispensable bass line over which all tastes and smells form their harmonies." -- Robert Farrar Capon
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Re: Food cliches that have to go!

by Karen/NoCA » Thu Jun 20, 2013 4:38 pm

when food is referred to as being, "orgasmic"
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Re: Food cliches that have to go!

by Bill Spohn » Thu Jun 20, 2013 11:36 pm

Jenise wrote:"It's like a party in your mouth."


You quoting Rachael Ray again? You sure she was talking about food....?

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