This has been a very active week for the philosophy of wine in the blogosphere. This paper by philosopher Barry Smith discussing the objectivity of
Tag: Philosophy of food and wine
The Meaning of Food or How to Read a Rutabaga
One of the big hurdles confronting the view that fine cuisine is a fine art is to say what fine cuisine is about. Paintings refer
Another Attack on Wine Expertise
The recent article by Hayes and Pickering in the American Journal of Enology and Viticulture (behind a paywall) has gotten a lot of attention from
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
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
Why Food and Wine Writing Must Fail
What did the wines that stimulated conversation in Plato’s Symposium taste like? Or the clam chowder in Moby Dick, the “brown and yellow meats” served
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 