Meaning of gastro-diplomacy | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C2]

Examples

“Gastro-diplomacy [title] "P W who …?" Mr William Clark is reputed to have⟳ said when he was being quizzed for the job of American Assistant Secretary of State. Well, whatever political reminders he might now have⟳, he will never forget⟳ our prime minister [P. W. Botha] after being given so memorable a dish as biltong souffle for breakfast yesterday, backed up by straight biltong and maroela jelly.”

“Emperor; King of all Spain, of Castile, of Aragon, and of Granada; ruler of half Italy; heir to the Burgundian tradition of courtly chivalry; the Prince of Christendom who, in his gastro-diplomacy of public overeating and prodigious drinking, […]”

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