Tag: food

Gustatory Influences: Food Scarcity, Changing Fashions, and Aesthetics

Posted on by Michael R Spicher in aesthetics, Everyday Aesthetics, Fashion, Guest Author, Philosophy

Guest post by Margaret Ferguson, founder of Beyond The Chair: Earlier this year, Aesthetics Research Lab launched their project, The History of Aesthetics, to sharpen our understanding of the practice and application of aesthetics in our everyday lives. Explaining the history of aesthetics is deeply important to understanding the philosophical concepts that drive our aesthetic … Continue reading Gustatory Influences: Food Scarcity, Changing Fashions, and Aesthetics →

Eating and the Tasteful Subject

Posted on by Michael R Spicher in aesthetics, Book Review, Ethics and Morality, History, Philosophy, Well-being

One of the more fascinating books I’ve read recently is Lauren F. Klein’s An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States. Klein writes that “in the late colonial era and into the early republic, America’s cultural and political leaders identified a causal relation between the cultivation of the American palate and … Continue reading Eating and the Tasteful Subject →