gourmania

English

Etymology

Blend of gourmet +‎ mania

Noun

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.