Food as a political object has been pivotal in defining the political and socioeconomic positioning of political leaders across many different countries. Instrumentalised as a diplomatic tool to enhance and maintain economic and international relations, food as gifts and acts of commensality are routinely built into the pursuit and maintenance of local and foreign policy, which points to both the materiality and sensoriality of gastrodiplomacy. This is, however, a realm of analysis that is fairly incipient in sensory scholarship. I make conceptual connections between food, senses and political life by proposing the notion of political gustemology, and by developing conceptual parameters in explicating the political life of sensation. In directing attention to sensory aspects of gastropolitical encounters, the article departs from extant works on gastrodiplomacy and provides a newer framework and insight to apprehend the embodied and sensory features of political episodes in everyday life.

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美食政治遭遇与轰动的政治生活

食品作为一种政治对象，在定义许多不同国家的政治领导人的政治和社会经济定位方面发挥了关键作用。作为加强和维持经济和国际关系的外交工具，食品作为礼物和共济行为通常被纳入当地和外交政策的追求和维护中，这表明了胃外交的重要性和感官性。然而，这是一个在感官学术中相当初级的分析领域。我通过提出政治品味学的概念，并通过发展解释感觉政治生活的概念参数，在食物、感官和政治生活之间建立概念联系。在引导注意胃政治遭遇的感官方面时，