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Definition of Gastronomy

1. Noun. A particular style of cookery (as of a region). "New England gastronomy"

2. Noun. The art and practice of choosing and preparing and eating good food.

Definition of Gastronomy

1. n. The art or science of good eating; epicurism; the art of good cheer.

Definition of Gastronomy

1. Noun. The study of the relationship between food and culture. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gastronomy

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gastronomy

gastromyth gastromyxorrhoea gastronaut gastronauts gastronesteostomy gastronome gastronomer gastronomers gastronomes gastronomic

gastronomical gastronomically gastronomies gastronomist gastronomists gastronomy (current term) gastrooesophageal gastrooesophageal reflux disease gastroomental gastroomental vein

gastropagus gastropancreatic gastropancreatic folds gastroparalysis gastroparasitus gastroparesis gastropathic gastropathy gastropexies gastropexy

Literary usage of Gastronomy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"... The Physiology of Taste" (1825),—a treatise on gastronomy and the great social interests generated or subserved by the need and pleasure of eating, ..."

2. The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler, David Josiah Brewer (1900)
"gastronomy AND THE OTHER SCIENCES THE sciences are not like Minerva who ... gastronomy has at last appeared, and all the sister sciences have made a way for ..."

3. Essays in Miniature by Agnes Repplier (1892)
"HUMORS OF gastronomy '""T^HERE does not, at this blessed moment, •*- breathe on the earth's surface a human being that willna prefer eating and drinking to ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"Monk- ton, and, after the peace of Aix-la-Cha- gastronomy; the science of eating and ... The gastronomy of the Romans was the most gross and luxurious, ..."

5. Wagner and His Works: The Story of His Life, with Critical Comments by Henry Theophilus Finck (1893)
"HYGIENE AND gastronomy Surely the disappointments and annoyances, domestic and artistic, pecuniary and operatic, to which Wagner ..."

6. Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman by Mary Clemmer (1874)
"... Furniture of Another Generation—A Valuable Steward—A Professor of gastronomy—Paying the Professor and Providing the Dinner—Feeding the Celebrities—Mrs. ..."

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