I used to subscribe to food and wine magazine. I would follow their gourmet recipes which would often leave me with twelve dirty pots and pans to clean but Damon I made some incredible stuff. I'd have to get top notch ingredients, some of which is hard to find, like truffles, and very expensive, but holy cow, what good food I put together. There would be layers of flavor. One recipe called for champagne vinegar which I thought couldn't be that much different than other vineyard but it was an animal unto itself. You need time and patience to cook gourmet but goodness it is worth it.