How about “gastroid”? Not elegant, but it does have a certain ring to it. Or “gastronaut”? (Or maybe I should just go back to work).

Mostly I love this article, and agree with about 90% of it, but have to part company with the advice to add potatoes to a too-salty dish. Doesn’t work. Old wives’ tale. The only remedy to too much salt is to make another batch of whatever it is, and leave out the salt, then combine the over-salted with the unsalted.

Oh, this talk of pot roast makes me hungry! I love my husband dearly, and he is a wonderful, adventurous cook, but he is -- gasp! -- vegetarian. Alas, there go my dreams of a hearty beef stew for dinner on a rainy November evening. Guess I’ll just have to be satisfied with a tagine of winter vegetables over a bed of cardomom-flavoured rice.