As social media (especially crowdsourced review sites such as Yelp, Cellartracker or various apps on the market) replaces traditional media in the assessment of wine
Category: Philosophy of Food and Wine
Nationalism and Food: Do Americans Have a Food Identity?
Ever since the 18th Century French essayist Brillat-Savarin proclaimed “tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are”, food writers have
Chefs Telling Secrets
In my Three Quarks essay this month—When Is A Meal Like a Van Gogh?—I point out the similarities between painting and cooking.
Is Home Cooking on the Decline?
The conventional wisdom, often repeated by leading pundits in the food world, is that home cooking is disappearing with deleterious consequences to our health and
Food and the Fine Arts
The German philosopher Immanuel Kant has, arguably, been the most important philosopher in the tradition when it comes to questions about art and aesthetics. And
Why Cook on Thanksgiving?
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
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