21 Wednesday Oct 2020
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My Three Quarks Daily column this month is about the difficulties of describing food and the important role imaginative language plays in compensating for the unreliability of our taste memories and concepts.
23 Wednesday Sep 2020
A life in which the pleasures of food and drink are not important is missing a crucial dimension of a good life. In my Three Quarks column this month, I explain why good wine and good food matter so much. This essay is a amalgamation of several blog posts on this topic that have appeared on Edible Arts recently.
26 Wednesday Aug 2020
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My Three Quarks Daily column this month considers the possible future in which great wines like a 1982 Lafite Rothschild can be reverse engineered and manufactured at a fraction of the cost of the original. Is that a wine world you want to live in?
29 Wednesday Jul 2020
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For my Three Quarks column this month I managed to write almost 2000 words on the topic of “clean wine”. It’s hard work trying to clean up bullshit.
01 Wednesday Jul 2020
Like anything of beauty, a great wine demands something of us and we can fail to live up to that demand. In my Three Quarks Daily column this month I explore this question of how a beautiful object can impose requirements on people who appreciate it.
06 Wednesday May 2020
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In my Three Quarks column this month I synthesize my recent ruminations on wine and beauty. There is only a few new, but minor wrinkles but it is now accessible all in one place.
10 Friday Apr 2020
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My Three Quarks column this month is an amalgamation of my several posts on the effects of the coronavirus on the world of food and wine.
11 Wednesday Mar 2020
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We typically don’t think of wine tasting as an imaginative activity. But imagination is an important part of appreciation and is crucial to wine writing. I explain the role of imagination in the language of wine in my Three Quarks column this month.
13 Thursday Feb 2020
Installment two of my series on wine language, entitled Fleshy With a Bad Attitude: Metaphor and Wine Tasting Notes, is up at Three Quarks Daily. It’s about the challenges of describing the holistic properties of wine.
The first in the series is here.
15 Wednesday Jan 2020
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Wine writers, especially those who write wine reviews, are often derided for the flowery, overly imaginative language they use to describe wines. In my Three Quarks Daily column this month I defend the use of metaphor. Without them we would have little to say about wine.
