gastronomy
/ɡaˈstrɒnəmi
/noun [mass noun]
1The practice or art of choosing, cooking, and eating good food.Far from being champions of a brave new world of gastronomy, we consume more junk food than the rest of Europe put together....
- A string of such venues opened a few years ago when the Paris food scene realized with a start that gastronomy did not stop at the Pyrenées - all things Iberian have been riding that trendy wave ever since.
- As the first restaurant chef to create menus in which each dish is served with a specially selected wine, he is a firm believer in the idea that true gastronomy should be a marriage of food and drink.
1.1The cooking of a particular area: traditional American gastronomy...
- The gastronomy of the area, with its traditional Provencal cuisine, is exceptional, even for a country known for the superb quality of its food.
- Steak and kidney pie is but one of the many contributions to world gastronomy from the traditional cuisine of Great Britain.
- For me, it was his fascination with combining sweet and salty flavours that served him best, something more often seen in traditional Thai gastronomy.
Origin
Early 19th century: from French gastronomie, from Greek gastronomia, alteration of gastrologia (see gastro-, -logy).
Rhymes
- pseudologia
- pseudological
- pseudologist
- pseudologue
- pseudology
- pseudolymphoma
- pseudolymphomatous
- pseudomalachite
- pseudomania
- pseudomartyr
- pseudo-martyrdom
- pseudomembrane
- pseudomembranous
- pseudomemory
- pseudometallic
- pseudomonal
- pseudomonas
- pseudomonocotyledonous
- pseudomorph
- pseudomorphic
- pseudomorphically
- pseudomorphine
- pseudomorphism
- pseudomorphose
- pseudomorphosing