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
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Taste, Representation, and the Art of Cuisine
Posted originally at Three Quarks Daily. In philosophical debates about the aesthetic potential of cuisine, one central topic has been the degree to which smell
Will AI Replace Wine Tasters?
Philosopher Barry Smith, director of the Centre for the Study of the Senses, says probably not, in his recent wide ranging essay in World of
The Problem of Good Taste
What precisely is good taste? It can’t be merely a sense for what is appropriate given contemporary social norms because people who are alleged to
Should Blind Tasting Be the Standard for All Wine Criticism?
Blind tasting, in which the taster lacks knowledge of the producer and/or price and in some cases the variety and region, is thought to be
Wine Wars are Really about Finding Friends
Big, high alcohol fruit bombs vs. food friendly elegance, toasty, buttery chardonnay vs. crisp, minerally Chablis, conventional winemaking vs. sans souf natural wines, terroir-driven wines
Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine 