"Gastronome" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... entering the chamber of council where Mariette held court; he cast the eye of a gastronome around it, and offered the advice of a past master ...
— An Old Maid • Honore de Balzac
... amusement since he has been obliged to give up shooting. I employ him as my gamekeeper; and when the cook is ill, he prefers frying a beefsteak and making the soup himself, to going on short commons. In fact, he is a gastronome, and since he obtained his pension his whole time seems to be occupied with the grand question: 'What shall we eat to day?' And, alas! grandfather is no less interested in the same subject, so that most of their morning ...
— Major Frank • A. L. G. Bosboom-Toussaint |
