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gastronome

American  
[gas-truh-nohm] / ˈgæs trəˌnoʊm /
Also gastronomer

noun

  1. a connoisseur of good food; gourmet; epicure.


gastronome British  
/ ɡæsˈtrɒnəmə, ˈɡæstrəˌnəʊm /

noun

  1. less common words for gourmet

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Etymology

Origin of gastronome

1815–25; < French, back formation from gastronomie gastronomy

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“Exposing myself as the smell-less gastronome was not pleasant,” he said, adding that, though he worried about his reputation and career, there was “a huge need to help these people.”

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2021

The idea that you could prepare dinner like a luminary gastronome using a found object took hold and would not let go.

From Salon • Jul. 24, 2019

“TELL me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are,” declared Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, an 18th-century French gastronome.

From Economist • Aug. 28, 2014

After all, one version of a saying by none other than famed gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin tells us that “stock to a cook is like voice to a singer.”

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2013

Never had they witnessed such power of mastication, and such marvellous capacity of stomach, as in this native and uncultivated gastronome.

From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de