His gourmandism was a highly agreeable trait; and to hear him talk of roast-meat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Letter] Reference

His gourmandism was a highly agreeable trait; and to hear him talk of roast-meat was as appetizing as a pickle or an oyster.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Letter] Reference

His gourmandism was a highly agreeable trait; and to hear him talk of roast meat was as appetizing as a pickle or an oyster.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Letter] Reference

Although Thomas Jefferson was a pioneer of gourmandism, introducing ice cream and macaroni to American palates, our culture viewed food primarily as fuel well into the 20th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Feed a Hungry Soul] Reference

A timely retort to gourmandism run amok, the first three titles in this chapbook series aim — nobly if quaintly — to illuminate and elevate taken-for-granted staples via concise, discrete histories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cover to Cover] Reference

But it is also a fact of very great importance that mere monotony of diet has a most serious effect upon health; variety of food is not merely a pandering to gourmandism or greed, but a real sanitary benefit, aiding digestion and assimilation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Triumph of Gluttony] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Triumph of Gluttony] Reference

Genetic gourmandism would have driven me to be a restaurateur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

It is unalterably opposed to runaway fads, chimerical visions, unstrung nerves, mental aberration, psychic gourmandism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mastery of Self for Wealth Power Success] Reference

Looking back on it, I must say I think we were all rather greedy, but we tried to give a better colouring to our gourmandism by inviting the captain, who was universally popular, and by making it as elegant and pretty a repast as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Station Life in New Zealand] Reference

The present Warden, being a gentleman of private fortune, was accustomed to eke the limited income, devoted for this purpose, with such additions from his own resources as brought the rude and hearty hospitality contemplated by the first founder on a par with modern refinements of gourmandism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance] Reference

Soap you make out of the ley of your own potash; fat you get from your pigs or your sheep, which supply you with candles and food; and by and by the good ox and the fatted calf, the turkey, the goose, and the chicken, give your frugal board an air of gourmandism; whilst in this climate all the English garden vegetables and common fruits require only a little care to bring them to perfection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2] Reference