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  • noun Plural form of gastronome.

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Examples

  • Rosa Ross, the chef and owner, has authored several cookbooks and worked with big-name gastronomes like Marcella Hazan and James Beard, so you can trust her skills with staples from land and sea; watch the marine traffic as you feast on frothy mussels or a butter-poached lobster.

    NYT > Home Page By SYLVIE BIGAR 2011

  • Osaka may be modern, commercial, and architecturally bland as Japanese cities go, but as any local will tell you, it's always been the ultimate "gastronomes" haven.

    News On Japan 2010

  • Meet "Rif" and "Raf" — a couple of French gastronomes that I met while photographing Roquemaure yesterday ...

    French Word-A-Day: 2010

  • Meet "Rif" and "Raf" — a couple of French gastronomes that I met while photographing Roquemaure yesterday ...

    et patati et patata - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • A bad meal at a workers 'social club -- the pasta was cold, the salad was dirty, writes Geoff Andrews in The Slow Food Story -- enraged the budding eco-gastronomes and led, initially, to internecine conflict with more orthodox Italian Communists, who were unsympathetic to seeing the workers' struggle as one for al dente pasta and the bourgeois pleasures of the table.

    Time For A Slow-Word Movement Trevor Butterworth 2009

  • Among the foods that gardeners and gastronomes fawn over, yet others rarely even know, stands sorrel.

    Kurt Michael Friese: Savoring Sorrel Season Kurt Michael Friese 2011

  • Very well handled story of revenge among the gastronomes.

    FAITH • by Aaron Polson 2009

  • Somewhere deep in the Oxfordshire countryside, there is a hotel and restaurant held in such reverence by leading food critics, gastronomes, and fine hospitality connoisseurs, that it is the only country house hotel in Great Britain to achieve and maintain its two Michelin star status for 25 years.

    Yvonne Yorke: A Taste of the Good Life - Le Manoir Aux Quat' Saisons 2010

  • The "local food" trend among gastronomes presages a massive shift in agriculture.

    Dr. Philip Neches: Invest Our Way Out 2010

  • Far cheaper than their famed cousins, English summer truffles are increasingly becoming a prized delicacy among gastronomes: a luxury food, relocated, as it were.

    A New Breed of Epicurean Delights Jemima Sissons 2010

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