How To Use Gourmand In A Sentence

Some bolder ones would resurface for a second glimpse, checking out dinner possibilities, and of course, these gourmands were the biggest, with the beadiest eyes and the yellowest teeth. Richard Bangs: Full of Croc: Why Not to Mess Around in Small Boats in Africa
The innkeepers, two unabashed gourmands by the name of Tony and Jerry, treat their guests to elaborate breakfasts and teas each day, and we quickly fell under the sway of their kitchen.
C n'est qu'une confusion perpetuelle de la gourmandise proprement dite avec la gloutonnerie et la voracité: d'où j'ai conclu que les lexicographes, quoique très-estimables d'ailleurs, ne sont pas de ces savants aimables qui embouchent avec grace une aile de perdrix au suprême pour l'arroser, le petit doigt en l'air, d'un verre de vin de Laffitte ou de clos Vougeout. Notes on 'Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire'
I also get why I thought of it as gourmand-y; that which they call floral is total confection, isn't it? What's worse than a discontinued favorite?
I guess my gourmandise runs deep.

I don't know whether those furry impecunious gourmands will go for these unusual pepper varieties as much as I do, so just in case I also interspersed some jalapenos, tabascos and Thai Dragons.
He may be a gourmand, and an epicure, but even bitter aloes may be placed on his tongue.
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
The dish is named for the beccafico, a bird that eats ripe figs and is therefore considered a gourmand.
I ate a porgy for the first time on Wednesday, an odd little tropical fish that is well known and loved by gourmands in this part of the world.
For gourmands, there is a choice of four restaurants, including two speciality restaurants - Signatures and Latitudes.
Her first book, Une gourmandise, has been translated into twelve languages. Muriel Barbery biography
I realise I'm doing what gourmands never do - reveal their favourite restaurants for fear of overpopulising, however…
The event was an absolute delight for gourmands with a ‘smorgasbord’ of delicacies on offer from each country.
The Aurora is a gourmand's delight, and there is little opportunity to go hungry - what with huge breakfasts, lunches and dinners punctuated by mid-morning and mid-afternoon snacks.
The gourmands not only developed recipes, which focused on the quality of the food, but they also advocated a lifestyle that revered eating.
As gourmands for the night, we all mopped our plates appreciatively with fine home-made bread.
As for the true sin of gourmandise, have you seen some of the prices they've been charging lately? Globe and Mail
The Olympic Games is a festival of nationalism, a gourmandising 17-day feast of jingo.
On Oct. 13, Mauboussin opens a New York flagship that houses a five-table "salon de gourmandize" where guests can devour pastries and chocolate while trying on jewelry. (mauboussin. com). Snacking With Sapphires
The drydown was okay... definitely not gourmand or gingerbready on me though, more dry wood. Frederick Malle Geranium Pour Monsieur: Perfume Review
Each room crammed full of stock was a gourmand's delight - an endless supply of canned peaches, pears, pineapple, guavas, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry and apricot jam.
The room was half filled with elderly contessas and solitary, beef-eating gourmands, with napkins stuck in their collars.
Of course, the gourmand in them relish the food and wine.
They should be grown in tolerably rich soil, but which has been enriched with decayed leaves rather than animal manure; as, when they are manured with dung, they are very apt to produce what are called water shoots or gourmands, that is, strong vigorous shoots without any blossom buds. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
directions" torn from the parcel by Railway borne, announced by the postman who knocked in the morn, awaking the _gourmand_ all forlorn, who dreamed of the table where diners sat, served by the cooking-wench florid and fat of the dame with the crumpled hat, wife of the porter who "found" the "birds" in the Babel where lost was the label addressed to the friend who expected the Grouse that _Jack_ shot! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891
Italiaoutdoors's ski instructor/mountain guide duo, Kathy Bechtel and Vernon McClure, leads snow-loving gourmands on custom tours through the Trentino-Alto Adige region of the Dolomite mountains. Fresh in Powder
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For the gourmand there are homemade pickles and jams.
Ten characteristics mark the phlebotomist: -- He walks sideling along; he is proud; he stoops awhile before seating himself; he has an envious and evil eye; he is a gourmand, but he defecates little at a time; he is suspected of incontinence, robbery, and murder. Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
At The Bamboo Hut, dig into the spread and savour some exquisite preparations that are sure to satiate the gourmand in you.
Before becoming a literary sensation in 2007, Barbery had published Une gourmandise (to be published in 2009 by Europa Editions), a novel that was awarded the Bacchus-Bsn Prize. An Interview with Muriel Barbery by Viviana Musumeci, April 15 2008
Gourmand has taken on an even fancier ring than gourmet, while the word glutton can be applied only to someone who eats an enormous amount of food at one sitting — usually cheap food, and with the standard of what constitutes “enormous” revised upward each year for obvious reasons. Hard to Swallow
The primary reason I do not like the word foodie is that, aside from the fact that there is no single, clear definition of the word, in the 1300 square feet known as The Delicious World from which I rarely escape, “foodie” has usually been interchangeable with “gourmand” or “epicure.” "Foodie" - I Shall Not Wear a Badge of Shame
Blended with vanilla and rose, the animalic ingredient lends Ubar that ambiguous gourmand/erotic quality that makes one wonder whether one should crave to drink it or to lust after it. Archive 2009-03-01
Jaded gourmands with cash to spare should keep this date free. Times, Sunday Times
The food is the best I've had in an institution - and believe me, by the end of the summer I had become quite the hospital food gourmand.
The take a break itself beggared all description: a gourmet as good as gourmand's delight! Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
Ils ont oublié, complètement oublié, la gourmandise sociale, qui réunit l'élégance athénienne, le luxe romaine et la délicatesse française, qui dispose avec sagacité, fait exécuter savamment, savoure avec énergie, et juge avec profondeur [...] Notes on 'Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire'
Napoleon's love of gourmandise was nurtured young on his native island.
Doron and Liz, ever gourmands, couldn't resist ordering a few slices.
The depreciatory or vilificatory fashionable novel delights in exposing the peccadilloes, or imagined peccadilloes, (for it is all the same,) of young or old people of fashion: a gourmand peer, a titled demirep, a "desperate dandy," a black-leg, and a few such other respectable characters, are dialogued through the customary number of chapters, and conducted to the usual catastrophe: virtue is triumphant, vice abashed, towards the latter end of the last volume; and some low-born hero and heroine, introduced to exhibit, by contrast, the vices of the aristocracy, suddenly, and without any effort of their own, acquire large fortunes, perhaps titles, which it would have been just as easy to have given them at first—go to church in an orthodox manner, and set up a virtuous aristocracy of their own. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
It would figure that this great hog, this glorified genre gourmand, would want more.
Another food and drink festival is now over, but gourmets and gourmands alike will already be looking forward to whetting their palates at next year's.
There is also a Menu Gourmand featuring onion ice cream with balsamic vinegar, and roasted Bresse pigeon with girolles and baby onion.
Another food and drink festival is now over, but gourmets and gourmands alike will already be looking forward to whetting their palates at next year's.
The following method was imparted confidentially to me by the Canon Charcot, a gourmand by profession, and a perfect gastronome, thirty years before the word gastronomy was invented: 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.
I HAVE looked through various dictionaries for the word gourmandise and have found no translation that suited me. 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.
C n'est qu'une confusion perpetuelle de la gourmandise proprement dite avec la gloutonnerie et la voracité: d'où j'ai conclu que les lexicographes, quoique très-estimables d'ailleurs, ne sont pas de ces savants aimables qui embouchent avec grace une aile de perdrix au suprême pour l'arroser, le petit doigt en l'air, d'un verre de vin de Laffitte ou de clos Vougeout. Notes on 'Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire'
Whether this were not making too much of death, as tending to assuefaction, some reason there is to doubt; but certain it is that such practices would hardly be embraced by our modern gourmands, who like not to look on faces of _mortua_, or be elbowed by mummies. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
Like airline food, university cafeterias rarely have a strong and loyal following among the discerning gourmands they serve.
I guess my gourmandise runs deep, although in practice this meant I ate a lot of plain hamburgers at Burger King.
There are very few salads that can so fully exercise the taste buds and provide the eye with such a visual feast, and few dishes that give gourmands such opportunity to play with different flavors and textures.
For centuries civilized society took a dim view of food lovers, calling them “gourmands” and “gluttons” and placing them on a moral par with lechers. Hard to Swallow
He was what the French would call a gourmand and most psychiatrists a compulsive eater.
If _gourmandize_ be the favorite failing in these parts, there is surely some excuse for the sinners. Border and Bastille
His interest in gourmandise caused him to taste its flesh, which he found delicious and certainly better than most of our chickens.
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
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.
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
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.
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
The room was half filled with elderly contessas and solitary, beef-eating gourmands, with napkins stuck in their collars.
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.
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.
My normally reserved father turns into a rapacious gourmand around the steaming, redolent pot, reliving his Saskatchewan youth by heaping his plate.
In fact, the Danish capital is chockablock with exciting new restaurants, many of which are helmed by former Noma chefs and after sampling a few, I can see why many gourmands feel the world's most dynamic dining scene revolves around Denmark. Jill Fergus: Copenhagen Dining Beyond Noma
In addition, the festival brings tourists and gourmands to the island.
Foodbeam est vraiment un merveilleux antre de gourmandise… les photos sont toujours à tomber et les recettes complètement divine et terriblement appétissantes… Continue encore! Foodbeam » Deux grains de sucres pour les deux ans de foodbeam – Sablés au thé matcha et cupcakes à la vanille, aux perles du Japon et au thé vert
In the last few years, though, new knowledge of the neurological highways that connect gut and brain, combined with psychophysical studies probing the perception of flavor, has shed light on the gourmand within.
I've loved seeing the topic of wine hit mainstream publications that aren't written just for gourmands.
The last holdover of the old way of thinking is the Catholic catechism, which keeps gluttony on its list of sins and indicates — by using the word gourmandise in the French version, and by defining sin in part as “a perverse attachment to certain goods” — that the original meaning of gluttony is to be understood. Hard to Swallow
Aspiring gourmands must first begin by collecting the raw ingredients.
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January 27, 2008 petite gourmand said ... awe poor pumpkin pie. lulu is sick with that same cough - thankfully no ear infection yet. And the Beat Goes On
Such places are more gourmand than gourmet, tied up with the wrong kind of greed and a vulgar desire to impress.
After an appetizer like this, the grateful gourmand finds that he has regained his interest in dining.
“Informational concerning reductivity oxalate am gourmand,” said the translator. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
I suppose you call saleratus bread and salt pork and flapjacks SIMPLE?" said the doctor, coolly; "they are COMMON enough, and if you were working with your muscles instead of your nerves in that frame of yours they might not hurt you; but you are suffering as much from eating more than you can digest as the veriest gourmand. Selected Stories of Bret Harte
Opened 75 years ago, one of the hotel's earliest visitors was the crime writer Agatha Christie, who also fancied herself as a bit of a gourmand.
C n'est qu'une confusion perpetuelle de la gourmandise proprement dite avec la gloutonnerie et la voracité: d'où j'ai conclu que les lexicographes, quoique très-estimables d'ailleurs, ne sont pas de ces savants aimables qui embouchent avec grace une aile de perdrix au suprême pour l'arroser, le petit doigt en l'air, d'un verre de vin de Laffitte ou de clos Vougeout. Notes on 'Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire'
For centuries civilized society took a dim view of food lovers, calling them gourmands and gluttons and placing them on a moral par with lechers, he begins. The Foie Gras Wars
Gourmands and epicureans aren't always nice, and they're not always entirely sane, but they are always interesting - and the best of them enlightening, in a way that transcends recipes and digestion.
Our resident gourmand, a word I had to look up to speel correctly! October is for eating « Dating Jesus
That the gourmand, amiable savant, is pictured as nibbling on a partridge wing (itself related to the arm which raises it to the diner's mouth) au suprême (mark of invested expertise), thus with the expertly prepared food neither completely inside or outside the mouth even as it is consumed, a circumstance that works to prolong the process of eating and its attendant pleasure, emphasizes this ambiguity. Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire
creel," and in her hands another basket containing cooked prawns, lobsters or other temptation to the gourmand. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878

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