edacious - adjective - fond of eating or related to eating
To be edacious is to be a "foodie." Although I am not particularly edacious, some of my friends and relatives are. I do like to host dinner parties (still outdoors as opposed to indoors), though, as cooking is a service occupation. Just after the invitation is accepted, quite a few of my friends and relatives feel the need to confess to having succumbed to edacious urges over the past year or so, gaining twenty pounds or more as a result. Some even go so far as to suggest that I modify my planned menu to exclude carbs of any kind just so that they can be true to their diets. Which leads me to this question: Is the edacious tendency human nature? Maybe. Voraciousness when it comes to food is an addiction like anything else. And when people are bored or depressed, it is usually the first vice they turn to along with excessive drinking of controlled substances. To the guilty, there is comfort in the combination of fullness and dizziness.
I'd like to wish all of you who have gained the "freshman ten" or twenty during COVID much luck with losing it. However, dinner parties like mine will probably not help you to lose weight. On the other hand, you won't stand to gain much if you attend one every once in a while. You will gain something more important: a feeling of being loved for who you are, with or without the extra weight on your bones.
Mangia Bene! (Translation: Eat well, laugh often, love much.)
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