gastrolatry

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.