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GLUTTONY
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Craig LaRotonda

The vice of excessive eating.
Refers to one who eats to excess,
or who takes pleasure in immoderate eating;
a gormandizer.

—Oxford English Dictionary

Dining in Distraction
An Essay By Sidney Mintz

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A Record-Setting Eater
Against the Grain
Mondays Go Meatless
A Weighty Problem at ROTC
Rome's Reclining Diners
Put Down That Fork

 
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