Philosophy of Food

» Convivium: The Philosophy and Food Roundtable
   Association of philosophers studying the significance of food. Events, membership information, organizational history, links.

   
   http://gustavus.edu/groups/convivium/

» Eating the World: Food Without Frontiers
   Article by Roger Scruton examining the relation of modernity to the culture of food.

   
   http://www.opendemocracy.net/ecology-foodwithoutfrontiers/debate.jsp

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

   
   http://www.gastronomica.org/

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

   
   http://www.calvin.edu/academic/philosophy/virtual_library/articles/plantinga_ted/the_scoffer_and_the_believer_toward_a_christian_philosophy_of_food_selection.pdf

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

   
   http://lw.siena.edu/boisvert/PhFoodintro.htm

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

   
   http://slowfood.com/

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

   
   http://www.pvspade.com/Sartre/cookbook.html

» 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.

   
   http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/b/b85p/

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

   
   http://oregonstate.edu/dept/philosophy/IDEAS%20MATTER/IM%20March%2010%202005%20lecture.html