Gastrolatry

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.

Tausenau worshipped his stomach. A Lucullus and an Apicius rolled into one could barely have given an adequate notion of his intense gastrolatry.

Explaining "gastrolatry," worship of the stomach god, Bakhtin points out the saving nature of this kind of devotion.