foodie

1. (colloquial) A person with a special interest in or knowledge of food, a gourmet.Examples: "We self-professed foodies liked to meet in restaurants and talk like experts about what we were eating."; "She offers crayfish with white feet or red . . . three ways, tends stove in high heels, slips into the small Art Deco dining room of Restaurant d'Olympe—a funeral parlor of shiny black walls and red velvet—to graze cheeks with her devotees, serious foodies, and, from ten on, tout Paris, the men as flashily beautiful as their beautiful women."; "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."Synonyms: chowhound, foodist, foodista, gastronaut, gourmandcolloquial