epicure

Example Sentences

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As French epicure Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin famously put it, “Tell me what you eat: I will tell you what you are.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2022

Connie is an epicure, a gourmand, a bon vivant, a lover and appreciator of fine food and drink.

From Salon • Aug. 27, 2022

When we say that what we eat tells us what we are, in keeping with the 19th-century adage of the French epicure Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, most of us speak nostalgically.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2020

Jeffrey Merrihue, a marketing expert and “semi-pro” epicure, who had eaten in forty-one of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants, yelled to his wife, who had been to twenty-eight.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 2, 2015

Miss Honey said, "Do you know what an epicure is, Matilda?"

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl