Information AboutGastronomy |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT GASTRONOMY | |
| food and drink | |
| SHOPPER'S DELIGHT | |
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A gourmet's principal activities involve discovering, tasting, experiencing, researching, understanding, and writing about foods. Gastronomy is therefore an interdisciplinary activity. Good observation will reveal that around the food, there exists Dance , Dramatic Art s, Painting , Sculpture , Literature , Architecture , and Music ; in other words, the Fine Arts. But it also involves Physics , Mathematics , Chemistry , Biology , Geology , Agronomy , and also Anthropology , History , Philosophy , Psychology , and Sociology . The first formal study of gastronomy is probably ''The Physiology of Taste'' by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (late 19th century). As opposed to the traditional cooking recipe books, it studies the relationship between the Senses and food, treating enjoyment at the table as a science. Etymologically, the word "gastronomy" is derived from Ancient Greek ''gastros'' "stomach", and ''nomos'' "knowledge" or "law". SEE ALSO |