Posted originally at Three Quarks Daily It is a curious legacy of philosophy that the tongue, the organ of speech, has been treated as the
Category: Philosophy of Food and Wine
Why We Love Artisanal Wines
We like to imagine wine as something humans make. A product, crafted. The fruit of labor, skill, and tradition. We talk of “control,” of shaping
Decadence as Destiny
In the opening pages of The Table Comes First, Adam Gopnik offers a simple but unsettling image: a condemned prisoner eating his last meal. And
Is Wine a Living Organism?
At first glance, this question seems fanciful— the kind of romantic flourish found in the waxy prose on wine labels. Surely, wine cannot be alive
Between Subjectivity and Science: Rethinking Objectivity and Wine Tasting
Posted originally at Three Quarks Daily If there is one commonly held “truth” that governs conventional wisdom about wine tasting, it is that wine tasting
Wine and Resistance
Jason Wilson asks a very important question as we sit in front of our screens watching civilization unravel with very little we, as individuals, can
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 