Philosophy of Food Aesthetics Philosophy

Food has been a topic of philosophy since before Plato. However, philosophical studies of food specifically were very rare before the late 20th century.

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• Convivium: The Philosophy and Food Roundtable - Association of philosophers studying the significance of food. Events, membership information, organizational history, links.
  
• Eating the World: Food Without Frontiers - Article by Roger Scruton examining the relation of modernity to the culture of food.
  
• Philosophy and Food - Consideration of the historic distance between philosophy and gastronomy, and of possibilities for bridging this gap. By Raymond D. Boisvert.
  
• Myodicy: A Christian Philosophy of Food Selection - An academic paper on a Christian approach to which foods to eat, in pdf format. [PDF]
  
• Slow Food - International movement opposing fast food and promoting dining as a source of pleasure. Newsletter, events, and membership information.
  
• The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook - Humorous sketch imagining a young Sartre obsessed with food.
  
• The Unexamined Meal is Not Worth Eating - Photo-tour of a seminar at Oregon State University on the philosophy of food.
  
• Gastronomica - A quarterly journal for the scholarly study of food and food issues.
  
• The Physiology of Taste - An etext of this classic eclectic work of culinary commentary, as rendered into English by Fayette Robinson. Available in HTML sections or as a ZIP file.
  
  

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