It is open, unmarked territory—a gastronomical no man's land.
gastronomical delights in Italy are largely of ones own choosing.
So far can literature palliate or compensate for gastronomical privations.
Its medicinal virtue is as great as its gastronomical goodness.
About 300 lines of this gastronomical poem are preserved in Athenaeus.
These gastronomical researches called for a counterexperiment.
Pons' stomach hankered after that gastronomical satisfaction.
She helped herself to truffled pheasant, and became absorbed in gastronomical duties.
Sometimes we paddled alongside for a while, and whetted each other with gastronomical fancies as we went.
His gastronomical experiments are often connected with curious details of the animals upon which he tried his teeth.
1814, from French gastronomie, coined 1800 by Joseph de Berchoux (1762-1838) as title of poem on good living, after Gastrologia, title of a now-lost poem of antiquity, quoted by Athenaeus (see gastrology). Berchoux's word is from gaster + nomos "arranging, regulating." Related: Gastronomer.