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Category: Philosophy of Food and Wine
The Dilemma of Deliciousness: When Taste Outruns Meaning
There’s a peculiar kind of failure that befalls the gastronomic thinker—not a failure of taste, but of attention. It happens, perversely, in the presence of
Re-Thinking the Aesthetics of Food
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
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
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 