as in cooking
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the art or activity of cooking and eating fine food
books about wine tasting and gastronomy
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Recent Examples of gastronomy
What began as a stint selling food from his home, alongside his wife Cynthia Florez, evolved into an award-winning food truck named the Inka Trailer, bringing Peruvian gastronomy to Nashville neighborhoods.
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Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Sep. 2025
On Queen West stands a cathedral to gastronomy, complete with maple wood arched ceiling and steaks worth worshipping.
—Kate Dingwall, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Spain With excellent weather, high-quality health care, a relatively low cost of living and world-famous gastronomy, this European country has been a perennially popular spot among the retiree set for decades.
—Blane Bachelor, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
That job belongs to Chef Aiman, a large language model trained on food science, global culinary traditions and molecular gastronomy.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Sep. 2025
On Queen West stands a cathedral to gastronomy, complete with maple wood arched ceiling and steaks worth worshipping.
—Kate Dingwall, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Spain With excellent weather, high-quality health care, a relatively low cost of living and world-famous gastronomy, this European country has been a perennially popular spot among the retiree set for decades.
—Blane Bachelor, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
That job belongs to Chef Aiman, a large language model trained on food science, global culinary traditions and molecular gastronomy.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gastronomy
cooking
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Jacksonville businesses of all kinds have been affected by the downstream effects of the second-longest government shutdown in history, including Chicken Country, a restaurant that has provided the area with Southern cooking for about 50 years.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 Oct. 2025
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Opportunities also abound to sell credits for switching from fossil fuel stoves—some 80% of sub-Saharan Africans use wood or charcoal for cooking—to solar or biomass.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Gastronomy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gastronomy. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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