gastronome

Example Sentences

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“Exposing myself as the smell-less gastronome was not pleasant,” he said, adding that, though he worried about his reputation and career, there was “a huge need to help these people.”

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2021

“TELL me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are,” declared Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, an 18th-century French gastronome.

From Economist • Aug. 28, 2014

His legs are an epic, a beatbox, a bel canto, a tango, a fresco, a gastronome.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2014

After all, one version of a saying by none other than famed gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin tells us that “stock to a cook is like voice to a singer.”

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2013

Wherewith," says that pious gastronome, Hengist Pelly, "God has been pleased to reward the good and punish the wicked.

From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose