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'Gastronomy' is the study of relationship between culture and food. It is often thought erroneously that the term gastronomy refers exclusively to the art of cooking (see Culinary Arts), but this is only a small part of this discipline: it cannot always be said that a cook is also a gourmet. Gastronomy studies various cultural components with food as central axis. Thus it is related to the Fine Arts and Social Sciences, and even to the Natural Sciences in terms of the nutritional system of the human body. Gastronomy is one of the world leading professions and is on the rise.
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 arts, 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 application of scientific knowledge to cooking and gastronomy has become known as molecular gastronomy.
The first formal study of gastronomy is probably ''The Physiology of Taste'' by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (early 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. Most recently, in 2004, the founders of the Slow Food movement founded the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Bra, Italy, devoted to the principles of gastronomy. [1]
Etymologically, the word "gastronomy" is derived from Ancient Greek ''gastros'' "stomach", and ''nomos'' "knowledge" or "law".

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★ Cuisine

★ Gastropub

★ Culinary art

External links

★ Le Cordon Bleu Gastronomy at the University of Adelaide

★ Network of European Alimentary Culture

★ Quierocomer. The Guide, Forum, News and Events of gastronomy and restaurants.

★ Boston University Masters of Liberal Arts in Gastronomy

★ University of Gastronomic Sciences. Bra, Italy