August 2025 – Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine
6 posts published by Dwight Furrow during August 2025| Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine
6 posts published by Dwight Furrow during August 2025| Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine
There is a lot of hype among some sectors of the food industry about data-driven cooking (aka computational gastronomy). It is the practice of usingContinue reading| Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine
It’s been awhile since I’ve seen this argument in print but it has really become standard fare. Tim James in World of Fine Wine usedContinue reading| Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine
Food is ephemeral. You taste it, and in moments—sometimes even before the thought of tasting registers—it vanishes, leaving only memory and an empty plate. UnlikeContinue reading| Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine
Well, thankfully, it wasn’t exactly the Hatfields and McCoys, but there was some heat generated in the Decanter-hosted debate between wine/food pairing expert Fiona Beckett and wine blogger Alder Y…| Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine
Cooking is rarely treated as metaphysics—but perhaps it should be. In the kitchen, we are not merely transforming ingredients; we are staging worlds. Time, intention,Continue reading| Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine
The thing I miss most about no longer doing wine reviews on this blog is the wine and music pairing that accompanied each review. TheContinue reading| Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine
This post piggybacks on my post earlier in the week about the plight of French winemakers as well as the post A Glass Against theContinue reading| Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine
In her article “Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Make French Wine Anymore,” Josephine de La Bruyère chronicles the plight of French winemakers, many of whomContinue reading| Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine
Umami was once a revelation—an elegant discovery of a fifth taste that illuminated the subtle synergy of fermented soy, aged cheese, and slow-cooked broth. But in today’s kitchen discourse, u…| Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine
Wine resists language. It slips through the mesh of vocabulary, defying even the most finely woven nets of metaphor, reference, and sensory notation. We reachContinue reading| Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine
This essay entitled “The Wine Drinker as Flâneur” by Jason Wilson is the most pleasurable piece of wine writing I’ve encountered in quite a while. I encourage you to read it, especially if you shar…| Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine
A palimpsest is a manuscript on which the original writing has been erased to make room for new writing but of which traces of the original remain. Food is like that. It is not merely nourishment b…| Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine
In case you haven’t heard the bad news, wine is in trouble. Not necessarily the weather-ravaged vineyards or the climate-anxious growers—though they have their problems—but the entire culture of wi…| Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine
Andrew Jefford, as is his wont, wrote an insightful and timely article on what he calls the key question in wine aesthetics: When you treat yourself to a special bottle, what do you hope you’ll fin…| Exploring the Philosophy of Food and Wine
