The debate about whether wine tasting has objective standards too often assumes a mistaken picture of how taste works. The mistaken picture is something like
Category: Philosophy of Food and Wine
The Sounds of Sweetness
Studies investigating the effect of music on the taste of food and wine keep proliferating. In this recent report, test subjects, when asked to match
Are Raw Meat Fans On a Slippery Slope?
A spate of recent stories (here and here) touting raw meat as the next food trend have me wondering about what is going on: From
Who Do You Believe? The Wine Critic or Your Lyin’ Nose
Do wine critics matter? Isn’t taste subjective? Can there really be wine expertise in the same sense that doctors have expertise at diagnosing diseases and
Does Regional Cuisine Matter Anymore?
The art of cooking used to be firmly rooted in local traditions. In Culture and Cuisine: A Journey Through the History of Food, Jean-Francois Revel
Culinary Fascism?
Time Magazine’s feature story (available only to subscribers) on René Redzepi’s ascendance to the top of the culinary world was interesting, but for reasons that
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