gourmandism

His gourmandism was a highly agreeable trait; and to hear him talk of roast meat was as appetizing as a pickle or an oyster.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

His gourmandism was a highly agreeable trait; and to hear him talk of roast meat was as appetizing as a pickle or an oyster.

The Custom-House. Introductory to “The Scarlet Letter” 1917

His gourmandism was a highly agreeable trait; and to hear him talk of roast-meat

The Scarlet Letter 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.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

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

The Scarlet Letter 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.’

The Triumph of Gluttony 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.

The Triumph of Gluttony 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.

The Triumph of Gluttony 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.

The Triumph of Gluttony 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.

The Triumph of Gluttony 2010