"Gourmand" still retained its sense of "gluttony", one of the Seven Deadly Sins, and Grimod's choice of the word, when ""friand"" more usually connoted a connoisseur of fine food and wine, was a conscious one and wholly in character; "gourmand" and "gourmet" first achieved their pleasant modern connotations in Grimod's "Almanachs", which, among other innovations, were the first restaurant guides.