Abstract: (Aspect, Face, Flower, Colour in the Romanian Gastronomic Vocabulary) The paper discusses the words designating food aspect, viz. față (face), floare (flower), culoare (colour), and their variants, compounds, and determinants. These words’ lexicographic and contextual meanings (both denotative and metaphoric ones) are analysed, their grammatical categories and spellings are also discussed, while equally reviewing the most frequent syntagms and phrases they are part of. This research is made from a diachronic perspective. The words and phrases under discussion have been identified in Romanian cookbooks issued along three centuries (from the early 18th century to the early 21st century). The aim of this research is twofold. First, it intends to demonstrate the internal coherence of the Romanian gastronomic lexicon and its relationships with various linguistic registers, both synchronically and diachronically. Second, it aims at reconsidering some lexicographical definitions (especially from the Romanian thesaurus dictionary), while laying stress on the relevance of studying the gastronomic vocabulary for an adequate lexicalsemantic, sylistic, and grammatical analysis of Romanian.