Word: gourmand
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Truffles were prized in Italy as an Epicurean delight as far back as the Roman gourmand Apicius' legendary banquet in 20 A.D., and in certain villages life has long revolved around the aromatic fungus. In San Giovanni d'Asso, located on a Tuscan hilltop and surrounded by the rolling clay slopes of the Crete Senesi, truffles are truly a village affair: there are 50 truffle hunters out of a population of 350, according to Mayor Michele Boscagli. From September to December they hunt for the delicacy, feast on a portion of their bag, and sell the rest to local merchants...
...chicken skewers, the staple stomach-liner for Seoul's legions of soju-imbibing salarymen. More adventurous eaters, meanwhile, will want to keep an eye out for pig intestines stuffed with glass noodles; octopus tentacles; and the infamous bon dae gi-boiled silkworm larvae. To the uninitiated gourmand, a simmering bucket of larvae might look-and smell-distinctly less than alluring, but there's no better way to get a quick taste of everyday life on the streets of Seoul...
...company's latest scent, Enjoy, carries notes of blackcurrant bud, green banana and pear. Observes Michael Edwards, author of the yearly guidebook Fragrances of the World: "Gourmand notes in perfumes are comforting...
...licorice, milk and rice flavors are now used in perfumes frequently," says Jean-Michel Duriez, a perfumer for Jean Patou Paris. The company's latest scent, Enjoy, carries notes of black-currant bud, green banana and pear. Observes Michael Edwards, author of the yearly guidebook Fragrances of the World: "Gourmand notes in perfumes are comforting...
...Tarantino's films allow for no idle bystanders; you either get with the pogrom or get out of the way... Here we go again?another gore gourmand acting out fantasies of aggression for the grind-house trade. Well, no. For a start, Tarantino's films are energized not so much by violence as by its threat; it's in the air like a balloon ready to explode... [Tarantino] sees movie violence as a vivid visual correlative for the internal agitation of urban America... Tarantino's movies are smartly intoxicating cocktails of rampage and meditation; they're in-your-face... There...