Gourmand

A gourmand is a person who takes great pleasure and interest in consuming particularly good food and drink.

In his book Alamanach de las Gourmands, Grimod De la Reynière wrote that a gourmand is not only a person endowed with an excellent stomach and strong appetite, but also adds to these advantages a delight taste.

Reynière concluded that the first principle lies in a single delicate palate, matured with a long experience.

[5] An alternative and older usage of the word is to describe a person given to excess in the consumption of food and drink, as a glutton[2] or a trencherman.

In this field, gourmand refers not to a person but to a category of scents related to foods, such as cocoa, apple, and plum.