gourmania
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]gourmania (uncountable)
- Enthusiasm for preparing and/or eating good food.
- 1970, Business Week, numbers 2114-2121, page 284:
- Sliced any way, however, gourmania means big business.
- 2009 October 6, Amy Pataki, “Foodies mourning Gourmet”, in Toronto Star[1]:
- Writer Judith Moore remembers "gourmania" sweeping her Oregon college town in the 1970s as adventurous gourmets strove to outdo each other with Greek or Provençal menus, complete with home-butchered rabbit.