News from the world of food and wine that you might have missed this week. 100% of adults surveyed think the type of spirit you
Author: Dwight Furrow
Wine, food, and travel writing, philosophy, aesthetics
People With No Taste Shouldn’t Write about Food or Wine
One of my favorite pastimes is exposing Roger Scruton’s senseless twaddle about taste, which he deploys in the service of denying the artistry of food
Recipe of the Week: One-ingredient “Ice Cream”
So I want ice cream, low calorie, no fat, full-flavor, luscious texture, freshly made, but easy, and cheap. I know, you’re quoting the Stones, “you
Cooking: From Chore to Inspiration
Historian Ian Mosby uses cookbooks as a source of information about the lives of women. The cookbook of one Jean Stephenson is especially useful because
Waterstone Cabernet Sauvignon 2008 Napa Valley
The playwright Tom Stoppard is credited with saying that “Age is a very high price to pay for maturity”. Most of us who have attained
Amuse Bouche
Painting by Dennis Wojtkiewicz This is sad. Café culture is one of the great achievements of European civilization. But in the collapsing European economies, people
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 