A life in which the pleasures of food and drink are not important is missing a crucial dimension of a good life. In my Three
Category: Philosophy of Food and Wine
To Live Decadently
When we eat or drink, we not only modify raw materials, we consume them. Nature is transformed into my energy though the act of consumption.
Taste is Knowing the Tissue of Little Things
We scour the universe for signs of intelligence, probe the brain for the roots of cognition, and build city after city packed with buildings that
Sensory Double Standards
Many philosophers reject the idea that food and wine can be art. But there seems to be nothing but prejudice standing behind this view. One
The Comforts of Home
As I wrote last week, to live is to be completely immersed in a sensuous environment, the often overlooked background atmosphere that deeply effects how
In the Wine World We Should Stop Fretting about Objectivity
I suppose one of the original justifications for scoring wine was that it would give us a reasonably objective ordering of aesthetic quality. This was
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