gastrolatry

English

Etymology

gastro- +‎ -latry

Noun

gastrolatry (uncountable)

  1. extreme devotion to eating or food.
    • 1874, Thomas Wright, A History of English Culture from the Earliest Known Period to Modern Times:
      Gastrolatry, indeed, is a worship which, at one time or other, has prevailed in different forms over all parts of the world — its history takes an extensive range, and is not altogether without interest.
    • 1887, Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss, Dishes and Drinks: Or, Philosophy in the Kitchen, page 197:
      Tausenau worshipped his stomach. A Lucullus and an Apicius rolled into one could barely have given an adequate notion of his intense gastrolatry.
    • 1988, L. S. Dembo, The monological Jew: a literary study, page 71:
      Explaining "gastrolatry," worship of the stomach god, Bakhtin points out the saving nature of this kind of devotion.
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