My wife's and my home cooking is pretty darned good and my wife, being half Japanese, learned all sorts of great oriental cooking from her mother. I always thought that Five Star restaurants were probably no better than our cooking until I was on a business trip to southern Belgium.
On a Friday after a week of work some of the Generals and Colonels dragged me over the border and we went to Paris, France for a weekend. They took me to a Five Star restaurant and the food I had there was the best I have EVER eaten. I liked food and relished good food because I knew what it was like to eat C-Rations and live bugs in Survival School and I thought food was as much for sustenance as enjoyment. That Five Star restaurant was like eating something directly from heaven.
You have good taste!
“food I had there was the best I have EVER eaten”
What did you have?