gastronome

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De Niro is perhaps the most successful celebrity gastronome, as a partner in the upscale Nobu chain and other restaurants.

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  1. noun A connoisseur of good food and drink; a gourmet. Also called gastronomist.

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  • De Niro is perhaps the most successful celebrity gastronome, as a partner in the upscale Nobu chain and other restaurants. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • After university I worked on a two year assignment for Gulf Oil in Paris and had the good fortune of working for a man who was a proud and unabashed gastronome. —  blogTO
  • The savvy gastronome will already have plenty of recipes for snow - marshmallow snowmen, snow biscuits and, of course, snow ice-cream. —  Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
  • But better opportunities, he felt, awaited this budding gastronome if he moved overseas.
  • April 1 also happens to be the birthday of French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, known (through Iron Chef, for some) for saying "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." —  Seattlest
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  1. French, back-formation from gastronomie, gastronomy; see gastronomy.

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  1. from French gastronome = Portuguese Italian gastronomo: see gastronomy.
 

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/ˈgæstrənoʊm/
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