Let’s retire the pious fiction that the winemaker who “lets the site speak” abstains from style, as if terroir were a shy woodland creature spooked
Commodified Nostalgia: When Heritage Becomes Product
We’ve been living through a boom market in heritage for many years. Nonna fonts on sauce labels, “since 19–” stamped on everything, reclaimed barn wood
Eight Ways People Judge Wine
Recently I posted an essay on my theory of wine tasting which evaluates wine by how its structure creates movement, texture, and tension over time,
Roast the Algorithms; Then the Vegetables
We live under the regime of instrumental reason—the worldview that treats everything as a means to something else, preferably something quantifiable. What is the value
Tasty is the Floor, Not the Review
I’m not going to link to it or name the writer since I’m not into calling people out for minor transgressions. But I recently read
Are Taste/Shape or Taste/Sound Matchups Universal—and Do They Last?
Among the more interesting results to come out of the field of research called gastrophysics is the discovery that what we taste can be influenced
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 