Abstract
The article considers gastronomy/gastronomic culture as a symbolic phenomenon. Within the framework of intercultural communication the attitude to food is expressed symbolically as well. The symbolism of gastronomic culture reflects the peculiarities of a particular epoch in the development of both mankind and a separate state. Thus, primitive people, eating the meat of a predator, acquired its strength, hence strength became the symbol of food; etc., or in the Soviet period the symbols and signs of gastronomic culture reflected the existing political system.From linguistic and cultural point of view, gastronomic culture is a certain set of characteristic groups of words that denote symbols, signs and codes of gastronomic culture. It is in the symbolic nature of this culture, expressed by symbols and signs, that the most important difference between culture itself and its components (for example, cooking), which are taken by ordinary people for gastronomy.
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