Big ideas about food usually arrive dressed as grand causes such as sustainability, health, or authenticity. These are good causes. But the everyday power of
Do We Need Another Debate about “Natural?”
I thought we were past worrying about how to define “natural wine” but apparently it’s still an issue. In World of Fine Wine, Benjamin Lewin
The Hiding-in-Plain-Sight Ligaments of Wine Culture
I don’t know that there is another human sub-culture as bound to habit and convention as the wine community. The wine styles available today—red, white,
Is Wine’s “Old People Problem” a Young Writer’s Problem?
Peter Pharos recently wrote an article entitled Wine’s Old People Problem, about the wine industry’s current dilemma (which seems a lot longer-lived than “current” suggests.
Why Food and Music Mobilize Communities
Some arts, such as painting, ask you to come to them; other arts come for you. Food and music are force vectors that pull bodies
The Technology vs. Terroir False Dilemma
Debates that oppose “technology” to “terroir” treat winemaking as a zero-sum game in which each technological intervention diminishes site expression. This framing misdescribes how quality
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 