Directory of Philosophy of Food Resources

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

Resources in This Category

• Eating the World: Food Without Frontiers

  http://www.opendemocracy.net/ecology-foodwithoutfrontiers/debate.jsp
  Article by Roger Scruton examining the relation of modernity to the culture of food.

• Gastronomica

  http://www.gastronomica.org/
  A quarterly journal for the scholarly study of food and food issues.

• Myodicy: A Christian Philosophy of Food Selection

  http://www.calvin.edu/academic/philosophy/virtual_library/articles/plantinga_ted/the_scoffer_and_the_believer_toward_a_christian_philosophy_of_food_selection.pdf
  An academic paper on a Christian approach to which foods to eat, in pdf format.

• Slow Food

  http://www.slowfood.com/
  International movement opposing fast food and promoting dining as a source of pleasure. Newsletter, events, and membership information.

• The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook

  http://www.pvspade.com/Sartre/cookbook.html
  Humorous sketch imagining a young Sartre obsessed with food.

• The Physiology of Taste

  http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/brillat/savarin/b85p/
  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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