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GourmetSmarts
Feed your mind
$16.95
By David Begler and Stephen Kuhn
Edited by Manny Howard
Design by Satoko Furuta
6 1/4 x 4 3/5 paper over board box with 100 cards, 1 booklet, 1 scorepad
First Published March 2008
ISBN 0-979-3812-4-x
ISBN13 978-0-9793812-4-9

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"Extremely addicting!"


-Thomas Keller, chef and owner of The French Laundry and Per Se Restaurants


 

Liven up your next dinner party with GourmetSmarts

Each GourmetSmarts box contains:

  • 60 GourmetSmarts question and answer
    cards.
    True-false and multiple choice questions cover cuisines from around the world, food lingo, and a smorgasbord of food facts.

  • A 16-page guide packed with even more great food information, from how to select the freshest fish at the market, to when your favorite fruits and vegetables are in season, to useful do's and don'ts.

  • A score sheet. How do you measure up against the competition?

GourmetSmarts is the fun, engaging game that helps you decipher even the most complicated menus. These fact-filled cards will challenge you and your foodie friends with questions like: What’s the difference between a crumble and a crisp? What exactly is a cassoulet? What’s the best grade of caviar? Pick a card and raise your food IQ on foods from popcorn to pot au feu.

AUTHORS

David Begler is a San Francisco-based writer and chef de la maison for his family. Stephen Kuhn is a passionate food and wine lover who grew up in his mother’s cooking school in San Francisco.

GourmetSmarts Question Categories:

Lingo - Food terms you'll find on even the most challenging menus
Ingredients - Meat and fish, fruits and vegetables, herbs and spices
Cuisines - Ethnic and regional foods and famous dishes
Wild Card - Tasty morsels of food history and trivia

 

EDITOR

Manny Howard is a New York City food writer and contributor to The New York Times, Food & Wine, New York Magazine, GQ, and ELLE, among others.

 

 
 
     
   
 
 

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"This should have a warning label: extremely addicting! FoodSmarts is smart food for the brain."

–Thomas Keller, chef/owner of the award winning
French Laundry
and Per Se


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