Thanksgiving is almost upon us and that means endless posts about what wines to pair with the big dinner. The answer from my point of
Author: Dwight Furrow
Wine, food, and travel writing, philosophy, aesthetics
Does Food Express Emotion?
The great French chemist and gastronomist Hervé This has a lot of interesting things to say about cuisine in his many books, but he sometime
Writing Restaurant Reviews is Difficult and Uninspiring
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.
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
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 