connoisseur of food

He enjoyed the good life, becoming a voluble raconteur and a well-fed connoisseur of food and wine.

Dr. Koprowski, who spent more than 30 years as the director of the Wistar Institute, a biomedical research center in Philadelphia, was widely described as a titanic, sometimes polarizing figure: a refugee from Nazi-occupied Poland, he was a trained concert pianist, a fluent speaker of seven languages, a connoisseur of food and wine, and a collector of old master paintings.

He’s a voracious reader, loves politics and the ponies, is a connoisseur of food and drink and can offer an opinion on anything from the Department of the Interior to the pennant race in the National League East.

Andre L. Simon, 93, French-born connoisseur of food and wine, founder of the international Wine and Food Society, renowned among gourmets for his Encyclopedia of Gastronomy and among oenologists for Wines of the World; in London.