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English
Noun
gastro-diplomacy (uncountable)
- Alternative form of gastrodiplomacy
1981, “The Star: Gastro-diplomacy”, in South African Digest: Fortnightly Digest of South African Affairs, Pretoria: Department of Information, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 3: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.
2008, Robert Goodwin, Crossing the Continent 1527–1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, →ISBN; 1st Harper paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper, 2009, →ISBN, page 44: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, […]