But is it “gourmet”?

On posh food and the taste and comfort of home-cooked meals

Alyssa Chua

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Photo by Davide Cantelli on Unsplash

Several years ago, a friend invited me and a few others to his home. He cooked a bunch of delicious food and had us taste it. “This,” he said, “is gourmet. And you won’t see gourmet like this unless you get it in some restaurant where you have to pay a lot of money.”

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Alyssa Chua

Event planner. Traveller and culture explorer. Writer embodying Gustave Flaubert’s mindset to “write of ordinary life as if one were writing history.”