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Originally Posted by fsquared
Interestingly, I was flipping through my English dictionary for something, and found that one of the words on the top of the page was..."gourmandise"! As a noun in English, it apparently means "unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like". This is interesting, since it seems to refer to the "enjoyment", as opposed to the foods/etc. themselves.
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There's also the verb "gourmandize," which means either to luxuriate in delicious food, or simply to pig out. I haven't seen the noun form before. Learn something new every day.