Opsophagos was a type of ancient Greek person who exhibited a seemingly uncontrollable desire for opson or 'relishes.' The vice of the opsophagos was opsophagia, for which the closest English equivalent is gourmandise. However, because fish/seafood was considered by far the most desirable opson, an opsophagos in ancient Greek literature is almost always a man obsessed with fish or seafood. Tales of infamous opsophagoi (plural form) focussed on men who took their gourmandise to extreme levels, training their bodies in various ways to be able to consume massive quantities of fish immediately after they had been prepared, ensuring that they would have the fish to themselves, since they would be too hot for others to even touch, let alone eat.
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The Seven Deadly Sins (French: Les Sept Péchés capitaux) is a 1952 French/Italian co-production motion picture drama. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Françoise Rosay, Viviane Romance, Maurice Ronet, Louis de Funès, Isa Miranda, Henri Vidal and Gérard Philipe. It has seven separate sections: ("Pride/L'Orgueil", "Lust/La Luxure", "Sloth/La Paresse", "Envy/L'Envie", "Avarice and Anger/L'Avarice et la colère", "Gluttony/La Gourmandise", "The Eighth Sin/Le Huitième péché") with five episodes from France, and two episodes from Italy.
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After medical treatment, the cancer went into remission. Not long after Geoffrey's death, Jane Grigson began to take an active role in food lobbying. She campaigned for animal welfare, she promoted food provenance and smallholders. It was a subject she had long thought important; in 1971, in the introduction to Good Food, she wrote: > The encouragement of fine food is not greed or gourmandise; it can be seen > as an aspect of the anti-pollution movement in that it indicates concern for > the quality of the environment.
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Anderson agreed, commenting that the novel became popular in France because it is "a story where people manage to transcend their class barriers". The novel also received a warm response in Korea, and sold over 400,000 copies in Italy. The release of the novel helped increase the sales of Barbery's first novel, Une Gourmandise. A week after the novel was published in the United Kingdom, The Guardian ran an article about French best-sellers published in English, focusing on The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
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The hotel is built on a 3.44 acres land with about one third of the area being a landscaped one. The hotel has 240 rooms, of which 112 are standard rooms, 57 deluxe and 41 Royal Club bedrooms, 22 deluxe suites, seven executive suites, three Royal suites and one presidential suite. The hotel's banquet halls can accommodate up to 1,500 people and the hotel has about 12 meeting spaces. It has three restaurants, namely, Navaratna (serving royal Indian cuisine), Cilantro (a 24-hour international dining restaurant serving Indian, Continental, Chinese, and South-East Asian cuisine) and Kayal (Mediterranean specialty seafood restaurant) and bars such as The Dome Bar, Flame Le Club and Le Gourmandise.
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Korney Chukovsky gives a lively portrait of Mirsky in his diary entry for 27 January 1935: > I liked him enormously: the vast erudition, the sincerity, the literary > talent, the ludicrous beard and ludicrous bald spot, the suit which, though > made in England, hung loosely on him, shabby and threadbare, the way he had > of coming out with a sympathetic ee-ee-ee (like a guttural piglet squeal) > after each sentence you uttered—it was all so amusing and endearing. Though > he had very little money—he's a staunch democrat—he did inherit his well- > born ancestors' gourmandise. His stomach will be the ruin of him. Every day > he leaves his wretched excuse for a cap and overcoat with the concierge and > goes into the luxurious restaurant [of the Hotel National in Moscow], > spending no less than forty rubles on a meal (since he drinks as well as > eats) plus four to tip the waiter and one to tip the concierge.
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