The AWAD theme for this week is food and drink words from guest wordsmith, author/writer/teacher Brett Jocelyn Epstein*.

The AWAD for Day 5 is "post prandial". Please scroll down.

The AWAD for Day 1 is "ebrious":

When you're eating fine food, it's salubrious
To take wine, but always un peu less than ebrious.
Excitements haute culinary
Become simply ordinary
When with wine, not with food, you're imbibrious.

Note: 2 of the 3 meanings of "imbibe" at Dictionary.com go beyond the literal meaning of "drinking":

1. To drink.
2. To absorb or take in as if by drinking: “The whole body... imbibes delight through every pore” (Henry David Thoreau).
3. To receive and absorb into the mind:

* Brett Jocelyn Epstein. Go to: http://www.brettdaniel.net