Bottom line. Food (and wine) has to taste good. Otherwise we won’t consume it no matter how interesting it is. We take food into our
Category: Contemporary Food Culture
The Search for Food Utopia
This fascinating article by Jacob Mikanowski tries to get to the bottom of the hi-tech food revolution that has turned cooking into an art form.
Hope is Always Good
We tend to focus on the negative when it comes to sustainability, food distribution, and food production because the future does pose challenges for us.
Why is it Important to Think about Food and Wine?
There are lots of hard problems that require our thoughtful attention—poverty, climate change, quantum entanglement, or how to make a living, just for starters. But
Meat Eaters Take Heart
The news about the future of meat consumption is all bad. It is cruel to animals, excessively resource intensive, damaging to the environment, and produces
Home of the Free
American supermarkets appear to offer us unlimited choices—multiple brands of almost anything we want, an example of American entrepreneurialism gone wild. It is an illusion:
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 