Word of the Day:
gastronomy
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What It Means
The art of preparing and eating good food.
The restaurant industry.
The study of the relationship between food and culture.
The gastronomy of Mexico is world-famous.
Gastronomy in Context
“It is against this background that the city of Vienna, in collaboration with the Vienna Economic Chamber, has decided to issue vouchers, to be spent in the Viennese gastronomy.”
Did You Know?
From French gastronomie, from Ancient Greek γαστρονομία (gastronomía), from γαστήρ (gastḗr, “stomach”) + νόμος (nómos, “knowledge, law”); by surface analysis, gastro- (“cooking”) + -nomy (“a system of rules or laws about a particular field”).
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