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A.Word.A.Day--gourmet
gourmet (goor-MAY, GOOR-may) noun A connoisseur of fine food and drink. gourmet noun attributive Often used to modify another noun: gourmet cooking; gourmet restaurants. [French, from Old French, alteration (influenced by gourmand, glutton. of groumet, servant, valet in charge of wines, from Middle English grom, boy, valet.] "Sellers plays a television gourmet in search of fun, and Hawn becomes the disruptive force in his life." Cineman Syndicate, Movie Review: There's A Girl in My Soup, Cineman Syndicate, 1 Jan 1994. This week's theme: words about people and food.
X-BonusThe world, we are told, was made especially for man--a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation? -John Muir, Naturalist and explorer (1838-1914)
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