gourmandizing , auch: gourmandising BrE

Oddly, Pearl wasn't in the house: Luther had been left in charge of the night's gourmandizing.

Nor can it be achieved overnight, any more than a lifetime of malnutrition can be put right by random gourmandizing.

My sanitarium diet had not prepared me for such gourmandizing as this and I ate steadily while Maxil talked.

It's the sensual orientation towards the pleasures of fine food and wine, and the name of a spiffy new bistro for elegant gourmandizing....'"

The Yorkshire banquet took place in a period that Nichola Fletcher, in her cheery, meandering history of feasting, calls the golden age of public gourmandizing.

Over the past few novels Spenser's contentment with his physique, his gourmandizing and his love life had left him so self-satisfied that he could say (in "Playmates" last year), "If I hadn't been me I'd have wished I were."