Gastronomy's the study of the relationship between culture and food. It's often thought erroneously that the term gastronomy refers exclusively to the art of cooking (see Culinary Arts), but this's only a small part of this discipline; it can't always be said that a cook's also a gourmet. Gastronomy studies various cultural components with food as its central axis. Thus it's related to the Fine Arts and Social Sciences, and even to the Natural Sciences in terms of the digestive system of the hu… (
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