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noun

gourmet, gastronome, gourmand, glutton, epicurean, connoisseur, bon vivant, oenophile, Brillat-Savarin, Lucullus, foodie*; see also connoisseur.

an epicure is a person who has a highly refined taste for fine foods and drinks and takes great pleasure in indulging it; a gourmet is a connoisseur in eating and drinking who appreciates subtle differences in flavor or quality; gourmand, occasionally equivalent to gourmet, is more often applied to a person who has a hearty liking for good food or one who is inclined to eat to excess; a gastronome is an expert in all phases of the art or science of good eating; a glutton is a greedy, voracious eater and drinker

See epicure in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II

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