In the opening pages of The Table Comes First, Adam Gopnik offers a simple but unsettling image: a condemned prisoner eating his last meal. And
Author: Dwight Furrow
Wine, food, and travel writing, philosophy, aesthetics
The Tyranny of the Algorithmic Palate
There’s a strange comfort in believing that machines know us better than we know ourselves. Spotify delivers the perfect background music for our melancholic Tuesday.
Is Wine a Living Organism?
At first glance, this question seems fanciful— the kind of romantic flourish found in the waxy prose on wine labels. Surely, wine cannot be alive
Making Wine Less Than What it Can Be
It is an oft repeated fact that 90% of wine sold in the U.S is consumed within days of purchase. This is not merely a
Between Subjectivity and Science: Rethinking Objectivity and Wine Tasting
Posted originally at Three Quarks Daily If there is one commonly held “truth” that governs conventional wisdom about wine tasting, it is that wine tasting
Wine and Resistance
Jason Wilson asks a very important question as we sit in front of our screens watching civilization unravel with very little we, as individuals, can
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 