Food and wine have to taste good. If they do not, we push the plate away and leave the glass unfinished. We are cautious about
Category: Art and Food
Food’s Fragility is an Aesthetic Gift
Food is ephemeral. You taste it, and in moments—sometimes even before the thought of tasting registers—it vanishes, leaving only memory and an empty plate. Unlike
The Aesthetic Politics of the Tasting Menu
When you accept a tasting menu at a fine‑dining institution, you are entering into a contract of taste, trust, and surrender. It is not merely
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
The Art of Cooking
How should we judge a meal? How can we go beyond merely liking or disliking what we eat to make reasonable assessments of what we
Living For the Moment
The experience of food (and wine) is remarkable for how it compresses time in the spectacle of the moment. It begins with the soil being
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 