Grimod de La Reynière
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Alexandre-Balthazar-Laurent Grimod de La Reynière, commonly called Grimod, was a gastronome and gastronomic writer.
Grimod de La Reynière
First page of Almanach des Gourmands by Grimod de La Reynière, 2nd year
Gourmand
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A gourmand is a person who takes great pleasure and interest in consuming particularly good food and drink. Gourmand originally referred to a person who was "a glutton for food and drink", a person wh
Grimod de La Reynière
…in French gastronomic literature through the eight volumes of his annual L'Almanach des gourmands, which he edited and published from 1803 to 1812. Gourmand still retained its sense of "gluttony", one of the Seven Deadly Sins, and Grimod's choice of the word, when "friand" more usually connoted a connoisseur…
Gourmands by Krzysztof Lubieniecki, National Museum in Warsaw
Henri Brispot's A gourmand