It is open, unmarked territory—a gastronomical no man's land.
By far the ablest and most complete work on cookery that has ever been submitted to the gastronomical world.
gastronomical delights in Italy are largely of ones own choosing.
These gastronomical researches called for a counterexperiment.
So far can literature palliate or compensate for gastronomical privations.
This gastronomical barter was always one of the chief pleasures of our college life.
Its medicinal virtue is as great as its gastronomical goodness.
She helped herself to truffled pheasant, and became absorbed in gastronomical duties.
About 300 lines of this gastronomical poem are preserved in Athenaeus.
My only criticism of this most excellent cheese is that the center must always remain a gastronomical second best.
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.
