The traditional Italian meal—the all-day affair with (at least) seven courses—has always fascinated me because it is not just a meal but a way of
Author: Dwight Furrow
Wine, food, and travel writing, philosophy, aesthetics
Terroir as Interpretation: Why Preserving Place is Always a Style Choice
Let’s retire the pious fiction that the winemaker who “lets the site speak” abstains from style, as if terroir were a shy woodland creature spooked
Commodified Nostalgia: When Heritage Becomes Product
We’ve been living through a boom market in heritage for many years. Nonna fonts on sauce labels, “since 19–” stamped on everything, reclaimed barn wood
Eight Ways People Judge Wine
Recently I posted an essay on my theory of wine tasting which evaluates wine by how its structure creates movement, texture, and tension over time,
Roast the Algorithms; Then the Vegetables
We live under the regime of instrumental reason—the worldview that treats everything as a means to something else, preferably something quantifiable. What is the value
Tasty is the Floor, Not the Review
I’m not going to link to it or name the writer since I’m not into calling people out for minor transgressions. But I recently read
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 