The idea that food and wine can be as deeply meaningful as painting or music has not received much support from our intellectual traditions. Plato argued that the appetites were a ravenous monster threatening to overwhelm our sweet reason, and most thinkers have dutifully followed Plato’s disparagement of the “lower” senses, treating them as unworthy of serious
attention.

The Edible Arts Newsletter is committed to re-evaluating that
tradition one meal at a time.

Written and Edited by Dwight Furrow, Ph.D,
CSW

Dwight is Professor of Philosophy at San Diego Mesa College. He
writes on Ethics, Political Philosophy, and Aesthetics and is certified as a Wine Specialist by the Society of Wine Educators.

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