Word: gourmande
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...Rotarian and therefore the non-fraternal portion of America is left with a cup of coffee, a sandwich, and a tin plated armchair. The Forum author endeavors to solve the enigma. "To me our main difficulty seems to be a failure to make a distinction between the two words gourmand and gourmet. When we cease to regard eating as something to be done purely out of habit, finding in it instead untold aesthetic delights, our only regret will be that we did not comprehend earlier." So, after all, Harvard's problem may be merely linguistic...
...present volume is by no such glutton, but by his contemporary gourmand, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, perhaps the most refined, curious and diverting commentator upon taste who ever lived. Balzac did him the honor to model his own Physiology of Marriage upon the Physiology of Taste of Brillat-Savarin. An unabridged translation of the latter work, on the 100th anniversary of the death of Brillat-Savarin, with an introduction by fastidious Editor Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair, is by way of being a delicate effort to elevate U. S. civilization...
...While his social and convivial self toasted with discreet enjoyment the good things of the world, his meditative, whimsical alter ego was at work upon the essays here collected. Since Brillat- Savarin was rich, he had no need to print during his lifetime. He wrote at leisure, as a gourmand should, and deigned to publish in his old age a book constantly rewritten, mellowed and refined throughout his lifetime...
...Augusta, Me., one Thayer Wilshire, received his weekly pay, entered a drug store, consumed thirteen 10-cent ice creams, six bottles of soda, two ham sandwiches, two hot dogs, two chocolate bars, a box of potato chips and drank several glasses of water. Gourmand Wilshire then ran half a mile to show that he was physically...
...other hand it may be said that the man who goes out to dinner at noon and returns in the evening to eat another dinner at Memorial scores twice. Now I do not think that the distinction, if any is made at all, should be in favor of the gourmand. And I think that many men, even those who get up to breakfast and don't go out to tea, would prefer to have Sunday dinner at noon...