Gastronomy as Sensory Engineering

New Books in Critical Theory

Aug 31, 202636:49Science & Medicine

One year after the publication of Gastronomica’s special feature on food and philosophy, Robert T. Valgenti of the Editorial Collective revisits the question of what a philosophical perspective could bring to addressing...

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