gastrocritic

plural gastrocritics

1. rareSynonym of food critic.

   In 1989 the “Gault Millau’s” gastrocritic awarded me, for the first time, with one “Haube” and, in the following year, with a second one and this has been regularly conferred on me so far.

   1995, Heinz V. Hanner, translated by Susanne Fleischmann, “Heinz V. Hanner”, in Hildegard Riedler, Eduard Mitsche, Wizards at the Stove: Austria’s Élite Chefs Talk to Us, Vienna: Geza, →ISBN, pages 73–74

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   In the 1970s, partly due to food journalism and gastrocritic Wolfram Siebeck’s (born 1928) weekly writings and recipes in various newspapers and magazines, men have discovered cooking as a hobby of high prestige.

   2008, Ursula Heinzelmann, “Cooking”, in Food Culture in Germany (Food Culture around the World), Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 96

   French and Italian texts are not the only works of world literature that should attract the interest of a gastrocritic, of course. As readers of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature will readily attest, food and eating figure prominently in Russian prose fiction of the past two hundred years.

   2009, Ronald D[enis] LeBlanc, “Introduction: Food and Sex in Russian Literature”, in Slavic Sins of the Flesh: Food, Sex, and Carnal Appetite in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction, Durham, N.H.: University of New Hampshire Press; Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, →ISBN, page 10

   Synonyms: food critic