food snobbery
Gastronomic pretension displayed
Food snobbery is looking down on others for their culinary choices—what they eat, where they shop, how they cook.
The food snob elevates certain ingredients, cuisines, or preparations as superior while dismissing others as unsophisticated: Her food snobbery made dinner parties exhausting.
It often involves performative knowledge about provenance, technique, or authenticity.
- pretentiousFalsely grand or important
- gourmandExcessive food lover
- elitistOne favoring the privileged
- sommelierTrained wine service professional
- craft cocktailsSkillfully made mixed alcoholic beverages
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- pretentiousnesspretentious, pretentiousness, pretension, pompous, pomposity