I’ve been thinking about how beliefs influence what we taste. We know our ability to evaluate a wine is influenced by price, reputation, background music,
Category: Food Science
Ferran Adrià’s Search for Miracles
Andy Warhol was perhaps the first artist to understand and take advantage of the commercial potential of art. With his appropriations of soup cans and
At a Wine Tasting the Most Important Serving Might Be the Crackers
Did the Sauvignon Blanc in your glass, which was so refreshing in the past, make you pucker like a Victoria’s Secret model? Did the over-oaked
“Crying Wolf” over Red Meat
One of my pet peeves is how science is reported in the press. Sensationalism sells. Eyeballs are all that matter, so we get disturbing and
Who Owns A Recipe? Revisiting The Case of the Stolen Egg
The episode has receded from the front pages, reporters are no longer camped on doorsteps, and Attorneys General have disbanded their grand juries, but the
Another Attack on Wine Expertise
The recent article by Hayes and Pickering in the American Journal of Enology and Viticulture (behind a paywall) has gotten a lot of attention from
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 