Good Food, Good Eating, Good Living

Abstract

Philosophy and food, do they go together? After all, isn't philosophy about the higher things in life, while food deals with lowly, everyday concerns? These are misconceptions. Eating and drinking are altogether essential elements of human life. When we eat, we connect to reality, to nature around us. What's more, it becomes part of us, we taste it and feel it. We renew our body by partaking of products from nature. Food issues have been ignored for too long by philosophy, for philosophy deals with the essential issues of human life. Food and philosophy belong together, like body and nature. That is why it is a serious oversight, a blind spot in the thinking of philosophers, that so few philosophies of nutrition have ever been published in the English-speaking world. So let's get to work!