Philosophy of Food

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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.

Gastronomica - A quarterly journal for the scholarly study of food and food issues.

The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook - Humorous sketch imagining a young Sartre obsessed with food.

Myodicy: A Christian Philosophy of Food Selection - An academic paper on a Christian approach to which foods to eat, in pdf format. [PDF]

Philosophy and Food - A short introduction to the topic by Jeremy Iggers. Published in 2001 in Philosophy Now.

Philosophy and Food - Consideration of the historic distance between philosophy and gastronomy, and of possibilities for bridging this gap. By Raymond D. Boisvert.

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.

Slow Food - International movement opposing fast food and promoting dining as a source of pleasure. Newsletter, events, and membership information.

The Unexamined Meal is Not Worth Eating - Photo-tour of a seminar at Oregon State University on the philosophy of food.