Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine

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• There is No “Essence” of an Ingredient – Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine

  I’ve have recently been re-reading Culinary Artistry by Page and Dornenburg. Published in 1996, this was one of the first English language books to directly address the question of whether food can be...

• Wine and Aesthetic Experience – Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine

  Much of my writing about wine is devoted to understanding wine as an aesthetic object and wine tasting as an aesthetic experience. But what, exactly, is an aesthetic experience in the context of wine ...

• Is Wine Unique as a Beverage with Aesthetic Appeal? – Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine

  I doubt that I need to persuade readers of this blog that wine can be the source of a genuine aesthetic experience. But what about coffee, Scotch, or beer? If wine is a genuine aesthetic object why no...

• Wine and Everyday Aesthetics – Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine

  What deep human problem or interest does wine serve? Wine is one among many beverages that can serve a very general, if not universal, interest in getting drunk. But wine is an inefficient and expensi...

• What is Elegance in Wine? – Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine

  Elegance is one of the most important aesthetic properties of a wine. It is almost always a marker of superior quality although it gets overused in describing very ordinary wines which are seldom eleg...

• Wine and Music Pairing: A Next-Level Aesthetic Experience – Exploring the Philosophy of Food and

  The evidence that pairing music with wine can enhance one’s tasting experience continues to mount since I last visited this topic in 2017. A research team headed by Q.J. Wang showed that, in a winery ...