English

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Etymology

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Blend of gourmet +‎ mania

Noun

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gourmania (uncountable)

  1. Enthusiasm for preparing and/or eating good food.
    • 1970, Business Week, numbers 2114-2121, page 284:
      Sliced any way, however, gourmania means big business.
    • 2009 October 6, Amy Pataki, “Foodies mourning Gourmet”, in Toronto Star[1]:
      Writer Judith Moore remembers "gourmania" sweeping her Oregon college town in the 1970s as adventurous gourmets strove to outdo each other with Greek or Provençal menus, complete with home-butchered rabbit.