Interesting Gourmandise Quotes

"Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste. Gourmandism is one of the main links uniting society."

Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste

"Of all passions, Gourmandise seems to me to be the only one respectable"

Guy de Maupassant

"People predestined to gourmandism are in general of medium height; they have round or square faces, bright eyes, small foreheads, short noses, full lips and rounded chins..."

Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.”

Abraham Hayward, The Art of Dining

“The gourmand is in harmony with the outside world. He is in fact a normal person.”

Edouard De Pomaine

About This Blog

Gourmandise is the hearty enjoyment of fine food and drinks and while a gourmand is a connoisseur, they are open to a much broader range of foods and preparations than the haute cuisine to which gourmets normally limit themselves.

I love fine food and drinks and am an avid cook but I'm very much a gourmand as opposed to a gourmet (also known as a Foodie). Here in Denver, we foodies are very fortunate to have a vibrant array of options available to us - from gastropubs to gourmet shops to quaint little farmers markets.

Gourmandise is bigger than just eating and drinking though. Enthusiasm for eating and drinking is certainly part of it, but it's also about having a zeal for social living; a gusto and appetite for life.

This is a blog of something I'm passionate about: good food, good drinks, good friends and good times.