Gourmand

Word of the Day for Wednesday March 9, 2005

gourmand \goor-MAHND; GOOR-mahnd; GOOR-mund\, noun:
1. One who eats to excess.
2. A lover of good food.

A gourmand who zealously avoids all exercise as "seriously damaging to one's health," he had caviar for breakfast and was now having oysters for lunch, whetted with wine, as he fueled himself for a postprandial reading at the Montauk Club in Brooklyn.
--"The Man Who Put Horace Rumpole on the Case," New York Times, April 12, 1995

Her husband was stigmatised as a 'gourmand' who excessively enjoyed 'the pleasures of the table'.
--Andrew Motion, Keats

Fifine was a frank gourmand; anybody could win her heart through her palate.
--Charlotte Brontë, Villette

Jos, that fat gourmand, drank up the whole contents of the bowl.
--William Thackeray, Vanity Fair


Gourmand is from French gourmand, "greedy."

Usage note: A gourmet is one who has discriminating taste in food and wine. A gourmand is one who enjoys food of fine quality, and also one who enjoys food in great quantities. Glutton signifies one who simply eats to excess, without reference to the quality of the fare consumed.
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this one was hard. So it is more of a combo post. First, I couldn't get anybody during lunch in the restaurants because the glare on windows was too bright. Then, I waited outside Masa to get a picture of an obese person going in and nobody fat went in there. Apparenly only thin people go to fancy restaurants. So I had to resort to two old menus, and a combination, and a legend.

Glutton + Gourmet food = Gourmand or Julia Child

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An actual menu from Alta-the bottom is the gourmand part. Amazing food, AND you can order the entire menu, the epitome of eating too much of high quality food:


A cafe menu with an illustration of a gourmand:


the gourmands in a restaurant: