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GourmetSmarts

Feed Your Mind
SmartsCo By David Begler
and Stephen Kuhn
Edited by Manny Howard

6-3/4 x 4-3/5 in; 72 cards, score pad, booklet: 14 pages
Published in March, 2008
ISBN 097938124X
ISBN13 9780979381249

$16.95  

GourmetSmarts -- Food lovers have a voracious appetite for the pleasures and knowledge of great food. The elegantly designed GourmetSmarts offers foodies a fun way to learn more—and to show off their culinary savvy about all things edible. The stylish GourmetSmarts box includes an informative Companion Guide, a scorepad, and 100 question and answer cards in four categories:

• Lingo—What is a mustardarius? If you order magret of duck, what will you get?
• Ingredients—Which is the most widespread cheese in the world? Does light olive oil have fewer calories than regular olive oil?
• Cuisines—What is a tian? How about a pakora?
• Wild Card—What is the highest grade of sturgeon caviar?

Take out these fun and fascinating cards at your next dinner party to spark delicious conversations or keep GourmetSmarts on your coffee table to feed your mind about food anytime.

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.

Manny Howard is a New York City food writer and contributor to the New York Times, Food & Wine, GQ, and ELLE, among other publications.