Philosophers at Table On Food and Being Human edition by Raymond D Boisvert Lisa Heldke Politics Social Sciences eBooks
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How are we to eat? This seemingly simple question is actually dense with possible interpretations, reflecting the myriad, complex roles food plays in our lives. Philosophers at Table shows that this question can serve as an invitation to re-examine the conceptual scaffolding supporting our everyday lives. How might we reframe our ethical, epistemological and aesthetic understandings if we acknowledge that we humans are not just creatures with minds, but creatures with stomachs – if we recognize that Homo sapiens translates not only as ‘wise man’, but as ‘tasting man’?
Philosophers at Table draws on literature, myth, history and film, as well as philosophy, to make the case for a ‘stomach-endowed’ philosophy. The short story and film ‘Babette’s Feast’ serves as the starting point for a discussion of hospitality as the central ethical virtue. A comparison between a fast-food meal in Accra, Ghana, and a fine dining experience at a Spanish restaurant dedicated to ‘molecular gastronomy’ launches a discussion on the nature of food as art. An unpleasant encounter with a slug introduces a reflection on tasting as a model for knowing.
In asking ‘How are we to eat?’, Philosophers at Table invites readers to use their relationship with food to investigate the philosophical underpinnings of their own lives.
Philosophers at Table On Food and Being Human edition by Raymond D Boisvert Lisa Heldke Politics Social Sciences eBooks
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Philosophers at Table On Food and Being Human edition by Raymond D Boisvert Lisa Heldke Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
Excellent treatise on how food is inextricably integrated into a wholistic view of how we think, reflect and feel.
PHILOSOPHERS AT TABLE, by Raymond Boisvert and Lisa Heldke, takes you places to revisit the simple act of eating. By chapter , I was thinking about hospitality and recalling one of my favorite dining experiences in Mexico...
During college my sister and I flew down to the Yucatan Peninsula to visit a friend studying abroad. We had the luxury of having this friend as our personal tour guide, translator and navigator. One day, blond and pure-as-the-driven-Minnesota-snow, the three of us set out for one of the local beaches, and after a bumpy, goat-and-chicken-crowded bus ride, arrived at piece of rural coastline seemingly in the middle of nowhere.
A dirt path led us to the beach. We stretched our towels out in the sand, stripped down to bathing suits, slathered on a touch of SPF15 and then closed our eyes to soak up that beautiful Mexican sunshine. Some time later we woke up to find ourselves surrounded by a posse of dark skinned, wide-eyed kids. They weren’t doing anything, just standing there gawking at us. Being surrounded by these strangers was frightening, and who knows, maybe even a bit dangerous, but it didn’t take our friend long to determine that these kids posed no threat. They just hadn’t ever seen fair-skinned blonds before so we were quite the exotica. In fact, they couldn’t wait to take us home and show us to their parents! We ended up following them down another packed dirt path to a structure they called home. It was a simple hut, the kind I had seen in National Geographic — stakes, thatched roof, dirt floor, with a cooking fire inside, no furniture, chickens running around outside. We were invited to stay for dinner. A parent reached for a plate of what looked like a corn-mush roll of sorts with some sort of filling inside. They were so happy we were in their home and so eager to share their food with us! Politely and reluctantly (all I could think of was the surrounding filth and lack of refrigeration), I had a bite or two, trying as all get out to be a gracious guest while practicing some self-preservation. The mere thought of what I might be eating made me turn green.
This story came to mind as I read about the challenges of the modern hostess, that hospitality, in a modern sense at least, needs to include consciousness of and a striving to meet the variety of guests’ dietary needs. Being ushered to a dirt floor to dine on an unrefrigerated
(but beautiful in its own way) yellow mush amidst all these smiling children still remains a profoundly memorable hospitality experience for me. The concept that those children had any responsibility to meet my dietary needs (at minimum, no food poisoning please) in order to be hospitable seems ludicrous. The very lack of what they had to offer laid bare the beauty of their graciousness. Even the horrible Montezuma’s revenge I suffered that night didn’t alter my memory of basking in that family’s hospitality. All this happened over 30 years ago in a different time & culture, so perhaps there’s no point in comparing it to modern hospitality. But just how can sitting on a dirt floor and dining on the worst food I ever ate be “hospitality” like that I’ve experienced as a guest in a well-appointed home with an espresso machine and high thread count sheets?
So expect your mind to travel with this book! One of my favorite things about it is how it employs stories and experience as a means for understanding philosophy. A highly recommended read for anyone who loves eating and the multi-dimensional ways food fuels life. Order-up!
Excellent rehearsal of philosophy in reference to eating, and food. I recommend it highly.
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