gastronomer

“And showed me a glamorous, frictionless world of hotel living and Le Coucou dinners and infra-red saunas,” she continued, referring to the New York restaurant of the internationallyacclaimed gastronomer Daniel Rose.

“He’s a good gastronomer  – he really enjoys a good plate of food and a good glass of wine.”

HE art of him who prepares the banquet has reached, in these latter days, a distinction of novelty which might reasonably make the gastronomer of fifty years ago hold up his knife and fork in wonder.

Strange, too, that it should be so, since I do not recall its ever contributing the first mouthful to my pleasures as a schoolboy gastronomer.

The gastronomer is the highest development of the cooking animal.