From the word of the day:

Gourmand is from French gourmand, “greedy.”

Usage note: A gourmet is one who has discriminating taste in
food and wine. A gourmand is one who enjoys food of fine
quality, and also one who enjoys food in great quantities.
Glutton signifies one who simply eats to excess, without
reference to the quality of the fare consumed.

Good to know.



4 Comments to “Gourmet vs Gourmand vs Glutton”

  1. Flash | March 9th, 2005 at 12:18 pm

    It is suddenly clear why the people who post to cmi.consumer.gourmand are the way they are. I had interpreted gourmand to be the same as gourmet, when this is obviously not the case. Not to mention that some of those people are particular (or picky) in their tastes rather than discriminating.

  2. Ryan J | March 21st, 2005 at 2:47 pm

    hey whats up?

  3. Flash | March 21st, 2005 at 6:23 pm

    Yeah, what’s going on? Blog more. :)

  4. Dave | March 22nd, 2005 at 2:15 pm

    Sorry, Flash. I’ll try to do better.