Posted on 15/01/03
The meaty issue of gourmet v. gourmand
If a gourmet and a gourmand were invited to a buffet, would the gourmet get anything to eat?A group in France called the Association for the Gourmand Issue, composed of chefs, writers and celebrity food-lovers, want to rescue the French nouns le gourmand and la gourmandise from their original disparaging meanings. According to a report Sunday in Paris's Le Journal du Dimanche, they resent that people still think a gourmand is a greedy sod who stuffs himself at the table, rather than a close cousin of the gourmet in his appreciation of fine food and vintage wine. They regret that the Roman Catholic Church continues to use la gourmandise rather than la gloutonnerie as the French word for gluttony, one of the seven deadly sins, and want Pope John Paul II to change this.
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