On December 31 2020, I wrote the following post. I didn’t anticipate it would be predictive. “I would like to think that with 2020 behind
Why are Wine People so Likeable?
I’m not much interested in end-of-the-year retrospectives largely because I prefer moving forward to looking back. But a cursory jaunt through my porous memory banks
What We Get Wrong about Wine and Food Pairings
Eric Asimov has an, as usual, thoughtful article on wine and food pairings at Swurl Media. His complaint is that we’ve made it far too
The Past Is Not Prologue
Some readers may remember the food world of the 1950’s in the U.S. In my lower-middle class New England family, a piece of well-done beef
Taste, Representation, and the Art of Cuisine (Part 2)
Posted originally at Three Quarks Daily Much philosophical writing about food has included discussions of whether and why food can be a serious aesthetic object,
For Thanksgiving, Change How You Think about Wine Pairing
Thanksgiving is almost upon us and that means endless posts about what wines to pair with the big dinner. The answer from my point of
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 