gastronomy
[ga-stron-uh-mee]
- the art or science of good eating.
- a style of cooking or eating.
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Origin of gastronomy
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Contemporary Examples
It is open, unmarked territory—a gastronomical no man's land.
Historical Examples
Gastronomical delights in Italy are largely of ones own choosing.
Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor CarFrancis Miltoun
So far can literature palliate or compensate for gastronomical privations.
The Book Lovers' AnthologyVarious
Its medicinal virtue is as great as its gastronomical goodness.
The Art of EntertainingM. E. W. Sherwood
About 300 lines of this gastronomical poem are preserved in Athenaeus.
These gastronomical researches called for a counterexperiment.
More Hunting WaspsJ. Henri Fabre
gastronomy
- the art of good eating
- the type of cookery of a particular regionthe gastronomy of Provence
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Word Origin
C19: from French gastronomie, from Greek gastronomia, from gastēr stomach; see -nomy
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Word Origin and History for gastronomical
gastronomy
n.
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.
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