gourmand

How To Use gourmand In A Sentence

• After an appetizer like this, the grateful gourmand finds that he has regained his interest in dining.
• Aaron's farm has few drainage problems, but his land, like most gardens in his area, teems with ravenous gophers who seem to crave garlic as avidly as any gourmand.
• In consequence of this perfection, gourmandise is the exclusive apanage of man. The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
• The room was half filled with elderly contessas and solitary, beef-eating gourmands, with napkins stuck in their collars.
• There is a small bird called the ortolan, which is highly esteemed by the Italian gourmands. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession
• I think it's okay, which just goes to show that I'm not exactly a world-class gourmand; but I like the idea that there's a better one out there, not too far away.
• To distinguish semantically between "gourmandise" in its proper application ( "la gourmandise proprement dite") and the common understanding of "gourmandise" as gluttony one must partake in the gourmand's powers of discrimination — unlike the lexicographers, but quintessentially like Savarin, whose prose, in portraying the gourmand's enjoyment of his expertise, takes pleasure it itself. Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire
• Here in the Cape, the indigenous flora is known as feiba, but we'd like to take you to Madagascar to meet a gourmand who is using ethnobotany as an essential element in providing healthcare.
• The French litterateur and gourmand Antoine Désaugiers once expressed the hope that his epitaph would read: "Here lies the first poet ever to die of indigestion. In Brief: Gastronomy
• His interest in gourmandise caused him to taste its flesh, which he found delicious and certainly better than most of our chickens.