The view that wine and food lack the cognitive dimension characteristic of genuine aesthetic appreciation is getting more difficult to defend. For much of the
Tag: science of taste
Of Mice and Taste
Two stories caught my attention recently because they involve taste and mice, subject matters not often found together. The first is a study that suggests
The Shaky Standard Taste Model
I’ve long suspected, based on intuition (which is often worth exactly nothing), that the standard taste model is wrong. The standard taste model claims that
What is Good Taste?
I suspect most people would say “good taste” is an ability to discern what other people in your social group (or the social group you
Wine: Will Chemistry Destroy the Romance?
What do we seek to know when we gain wine knowledge? We learn to distinguish the taste of Cabernet from Zinfandel, recognize the different flavor
The Taste of Fat
Food scientists have long insisted that there are only four basic tastes—sweet, salt, sour, and bitter—which correspond to what was thought to be four types
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 