Gourmande
I've learned a fantastic new word. "Gourmande". It's a French word for which we have no exact translation. One would use it like this: Say you're out in a restaurant and you've just had the biggest dinner in your life and you feel like you're going to explode or possibly need to be airlifted out of the building to have a lie-down, and then you see the dessert menu and it has something crazy tasty on it that you have to have even though you're running the risk of death. That's gourmande. Me and Clair and Emily gourmanded the feck out of it for the weekend.
This picture was taken in Galway where we spent Sunday gourmanding our way through a hippy street fair eating everything in sight. Fabulous.
My favourite incedenct of gourmanderie was in Govindas on Saturday where we all had the usual fantastic main course then we split an entire cheesecake 3 ways even though we were all dying and kept having to take breaks and it took the bones of an hour. This picture represents the hallucinations we were all having by the end of it.
3 comments:
I think this is my favourite ever photo of me, doing what I love the most - gourmandising!
gourmanderology is a highly skilled profession but i see you have mastered its intricate gourmanderisations.
ô rich, subtle and sophisticated French language... but maybe not as much as your imagination can create: gourmanderie, gourmanderology, gourmanderisations, gourmandising, to gourmand... just genius! I should suggest all of these words to the "Académie Française" in charge of the evolution of the language.
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