Gourmandism

Word GOURMANDISM
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His gourmandism was a highly agreeable trait; and to hear him talk of roast meat was as appetizing as a pickle or an oyster. ❋ Unknown (2002)

His gourmandism was a highly agreeable trait; and to hear him talk of roast-meat ❋ Unknown (1850)

His gourmandism was a highly agreeable trait; and to hear him talk of roast-meat was as appetizing as a pickle or an oyster. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

Brillat-Savarin was convinced that the celebration of food entailed by gourmandism, ‘the reasoned comprehension of everything connected with the nourishment of man’, had great health benefits: ‘[T] hose who know how to eat look ten years younger than those to whom the science is a mystery.’ ❋ Unknown (2010)

Brillat-Savarin was confident in his time that ‘nowadays everyone understands the difference between gourmandism and gluttony’; alas, it would seem that we have lost sight of the difference and the supermarkets have come to represent the triumph of gluttony. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For perhaps the first time, a significant proportion of the European population could rely on the availability of an abundance of food, and he sought to distinguish clearly between the celebration of food that he extolled as gourmandism and the worrying tendency towards gluttony that such plenty allowed for. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A timely retort to gourmandism run amok, the first three titles in this chapbook series aim — nobly if quaintly — to illuminate and elevate taken-for-granted staples via concise, discrete histories. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Although Thomas Jefferson was a pioneer of gourmandism, introducing ice cream and macaroni to American palates, our culture viewed food primarily as fuel well into the 20th century. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But it is also a fact of very great importance that mere monotony of diet has a most serious effect upon health; variety of food is not merely a pandering to gourmandism or greed, but a real sanitary benefit, aiding digestion and assimilation. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is unalterably opposed to runaway fads, chimerical visions, unstrung nerves, mental aberration, psychic gourmandism. ❋ Unknown (1884)

Looking back on it, I must say I think we were all rather greedy, but we tried to give a better colouring to our gourmandism by inviting the captain, who was universally popular, and by making it as elegant and pretty a repast as possible. ❋ Unknown (1871)

I literally depended upon my gun for food, and my cooking utensils consisted of one saucepan and a gridiron, a 'stew' and a 'fry' being all that I looked forward to in the way of gourmandism. ❋ Samuel White Baker (1857)

"Sir," said Elmore, turning to his guest, I do not know whether you will agree with me, but I think a slight tendency to gourmandism is absolutely necessary to complete the character of a truly classical mind. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

The present Warden, being a gentleman of private fortune, was accustomed to eke the limited income, devoted for this purpose, with such additions from his own resources as brought the rude and hearty hospitality contemplated by the first founder on a par with modern refinements of gourmandism. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

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