gastronomy
Americannoun
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the art or science of good eating.
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a style of cooking or eating.
noun
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the art of good eating
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the type of cookery of a particular region
the gastronomy of Provence
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Etymology
Origin of gastronomy
1805–15; < French gastronomie < Greek gastronómia. See gastro-, -nomy
Explanation
Gastronomy is all about food — the study of food, the history of food, making good food — how we have come to eat what we eat. Despite appearances, gastronomy has nothing to do with gas (although if you eat a great deal of rich food from France, which is where we get the word, it may lead to the intestinal discomfort known as gas). Gastronomy concerns itself with the culture of your belly, gastro, in ancient Greek. In France, where they take their food very seriously, they have an entire academy devoted to the study of gastronomy, or gastronomie — as they say.
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At Beğendik Abi, Handan Kaygusuzer’s homey, traditional cooking has added to the Turkish coastal town of Urla’s reputation as a hot spot for gastronomy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
“And,” he adds, “its gastronomy is quite honest.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
As I explained to the trainees, however, an exceptional amount of knowledge about botany, forestry, gastronomy, aquatic systems and topography was not just passed along by enslaved people, but created by them.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026
But at Woohoo, the brains behind the menu is not a person but an AI programme -- known as chef Aiman -- trained on thousands of recipes and decades of culinary research and molecular gastronomy.
From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025
Yet such were the performances in gastronomy, that there was after dinner scarcely a sufficient quantity of the reit-buck remaining to supply me with a breakfast on the following morning.
From Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa by A. W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson
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