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Word of the Day for Friday, March 4, 2011gastronome \GAS-truh-nohm\, noun: A connoisseur of good food and drink. If "poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter," to quote the 19th-century French gastronome Brillat-Savarin, why paint the same painting over and over again? Even though Paris was then considered the culinary capital of Europe, the food at the Cercle was so highly revered that many well-known gastronomes regularly made the trip to Lyon to eat there. I am no gastronome at the best; moreover, I have, over the years, eaten in so many unpropitious circumstances and from so many truly awful kitchens that I have come to consider myself almost as much a connoisseur of bad food as other men are of good. Gastronome is ultimately derived from Greek gaster, "stomach" + nomos, "rule, law." | |||||||||
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  The sound of a chips bag opening? How do you describe it and what is the word for describing such sounds?A few years ago Frito-Lay introduced a bag for their snack chips that was made from plants, not plastic, and could�decompose in compost. It seemed like a good idea - a company putting their environmental foot forward through sustainable packaging - however, the "rip" heard upon opening the bag of chips registered at about eighty-five... | |||||||||
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