Jamie Goode takes a break from writing wine reviews to think about writing restaurant reviews, and he rightly claims it is a very difficult job.
Author: Dwight Furrow
Wine, food, and travel writing, philosophy, aesthetics
A Rebuke to Neo-Prohibitionists
In debates about the health effects of moderate wine drinking, the psychological and intellectual benefits of wine are seldom discussed. In an essay entitled “You’ll
There is No “Essence” of an Ingredient
I’ve have recently been re-reading Culinary Artistry by Page and Dornenburg. Published in 1996, this was one of the first English language books to directly
The Prince of Gastronomy Laid an Egg
Curnonsky (the pen name of Maurice Edmond Sailland) was called the prince of gastronomy when he was extolling the virtues of French country-style cooking in
Taste, Representation, and the Art of Cuisine
Posted originally at Three Quarks Daily. In philosophical debates about the aesthetic potential of cuisine, one central topic has been the degree to which smell
Wine Marketing: Isn’t It Obvious?
It seems like every conversation in the wine industry today begins and ends with the same topic—what to do about the fact that younger people
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 