Posted originally at Three Quarks Daily If there is one commonly held “truth” that governs conventional wisdom about wine tasting, it is that wine tasting
Wine and Resistance
Jason Wilson asks a very important question as we sit in front of our screens watching civilization unravel with very little we, as individuals, can
Against Aesthetic Malnutrition: Philosophy Finally Bites Back
Taste has long been the odd one out in philosophical discussions of aesthetics. While judgments of beauty in art and nature have been taken seriously—both
Mystery, What Mystery?
I may not have to pose this question to my audience here but it is useful as an analytic framework to grasp what’s wrong with
Whither Gastronomy?
The French connoisseur, Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, was the first to publish a book on gastronomy: The Physiology of Taste published in 1825. Of course, we knew
Charlie the Tuna Had a Point
That reference surely dates me as well as anyone else who gets it. Charlie the Tuna was a mascot for Starkist way back in the
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