Last week I was musing about the claim, often made by social scientists, that tastes are a reflection of social class or moral conviction rather than
Category: Philosophy of Food and Wine
Mouth Taste, Moral Taste, and Social Hierarchies
One obstacle to the study of food and wine aesthetics is the complicating role of social class and moral judgment in explaining food preferences. Is
The Philosophy of Mind Finally Penetrates Wine Culture
Joe Roberts (AKA 1WineDude) has an insightful discussion of the issue of objectivity of wine ratings. And to make his point he drags the word
The Meaning of Food or How to Read a Rutabaga
One of the big hurdles confronting the view that fine cuisine is a fine art is to say what fine cuisine is about. Paintings refer
Another Attack on Wine Expertise
The recent article by Hayes and Pickering in the American Journal of Enology and Viticulture (behind a paywall) has gotten a lot of attention from
Who’s The Expert?
I have been musing about the nature of tasting expertise (wine and food criticism) in recent weeks (here, here, here, and here); but I don’t
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 