Gastronomy

Gastronomy is the study of food and culture, with a particular focus on gourmet cuisine.

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Honoré de Balzac
No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We enjoy lingering in a becalmed state, a kind of midpoint between the reverie of a thinker and the contentment of a cud-chewing animal, a state that should be termed the physical melancholy of gastronomy.
Honoré de Balzac, The Human Comedy: Selected Stories

Woody Allen
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
Woody Allen

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