Definitions
a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
Word origin
From food + -ie. Popularized by Ann Barr and Paul Levy in The Official Foodie Handbook (1984). Levy credits New York food critic Gael Greene with the coinage. The word was used by Greene in a 1980 article in New York magazine, see quotations.
Used in a sentence
“We self-professed foodies liked to meet in restaurants and talk like experts about what we were eating.”
“Foodies are the ones talking about food in any gathering—salivating over restaurants, recipes, radicchio. They don't think they are being trivial–Foodies consider food to be an art, on a level with painting or drama.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Cuisine enthusiast”6 letters
02“Culinary enthusiast”6 letters
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