[Sca-cooks] The passing of a cook

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Susan Fox-Davis wrote:
> Um, a slight vocabulary correction.  The difference between a gourmand and a
> gourmet is a matter of quantity vs. quality.  Some of us are both, of course...
> <rueful glance at my bathroom scale>

I have to go with Ras here. I've heard this distinction before, and in
practical terms it seems virtually never to be applied. Brillat-Savarin
writes, I'm pretty sure, almost exclusively of gourmands, but he's never
talking about any unusual fondness for quantity. Yes, he's writing in
French, but I believe the French text uses the word, too.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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