Friday, March 4, 2011


Word of the Day for Friday, March 4, 2011
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gastronome \GAS-truh-nohm\, noun:
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A connoisseur of good food and drink.
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With all of his royalty dinners in the last two years, the B.O. has become a bit of a gastronome; too bad he hasn't learned to be a good president during that time as well!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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If "poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter," to quote the 19th-century French gastronome Brillat-Savarin, why paint the same painting over and over again?-- John Willoughby and Chris Schlesinger, "From Poussin to Capon a Chicken in Every Size", New York Times, September 22, 1999
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Even though Paris was then considered the culinary capital of Europe, the food at the Cercle was so highly revered that many well-known gastronomes regularly made the trip to Lyon to eat there.-- Daniel Rogov, "Three culinary tales for Hanukka", Jerusalem Post, December 6, 1996
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I am no gastronome at the best; moreover, I have, over the years, eaten in so many unpropitious circumstances and from so many truly awful kitchens that I have come to consider myself almost as much a connoisseur of bad food as other men are of good.-- James Cameron, "Albania: The Last Marxist Paradise", The Atlantic, June 1963
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Gastronome is ultimately derived from Greek gaster, "stomach" + nomos, "rule, law."

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