Historian Tom Albala asks a good question: With all the challenges and time compression of modern life, the decline of the home cooked meal and
Category: Philosophy of Food and Wine
Enjoyment and Contemplation
Now that food has become an object of discourse rather than a taken-for-granted necessity, it has also become the focus of myriad ideological crosscurrants—vegan vs.
The Essence of American Food
In Priscilla Ferguson’s otherwise interesting book about the language of food, entitled Word of Mouth: What We Talk About When We Talk About Food, she
Wine Tasting and Community
I suspect most people would agree that the point of drinking wine is to get drunk, or a least tipsy. But I argue in my
Are Wine Scores Inflated?
Complaints about the 100-pt. rating system for wine are ubiquitous in the blogosphere and I’ve commented on it myself. But beating a dead horse is
Dionysus and the Food Revolution
Life is suffering and then you die, according to the wisdom of Silenus, the mentor of Dionysus in Greek mythology. Nietzsche argued that art was
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