the.com/gastronomy
Cooking with footnotes: the study of eating like it's a serious academic discipline.
means The art and science of good food and drink — cooking, eating, and the culture around both, taken seriously enough to study.
from From Greek gaster (stomach, belly) plus nomos (law, custom) — literally 'the laws of the stomach.' The word got a boost in the early 1800s when a French poem titled 'La Gastronomie' popularized it, right as France was busy inventing the modern idea of fine dining and restaurant criticism. So the word itself is a bit of a French import, dressed in borrowed Greek.
- etymology
- greek for stomach plus rules or law
- coined by
- a 1801 french poem popularized the word
- brillat-savarin
- wrote you are what you eat, in 1825
- not just taste
- covers culture, chemistry, history, and economics of food