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noun
- the art or science of good eating.
- a style of cooking or eating.
adjective
- of or relating to food and cookery, esp the art of good eating
noun
- the art of good eating
- the type of cookery of a particular regionthe gastronomy of Provence
1828, from French gastronomique, from gastronomie (see gastronomy). Related: Gastronomical; gastronomically.
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.