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Food has been a topic of philosophy since before Plato. However, philosophical studies of food specifically were very rare before the late 20th century.

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Gastronomica

A quarterly journal for the scholarly study of food and food issues.
http://www.gastronomica.org/

Eating the World: Food Without Frontiers

Article by Roger Scruton examining the relation of modernity to the culture of food.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-4-64-1224.jsp

Philosophy and Food

Consideration of the historic distance between philosophy and gastronomy, and of possibilities for bridging this gap. By Raymond D. Boisvert.
http://www.siena.edu/boisvert/PhFoodintro.htm

Convivium: The Philosophy and Food Roundtable

Association of philosophers studying the significance of food. Events, membership information, organizational history, links.
http://www.gustavus.edu/Groups/convivium/

The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook

Humorous sketch imagining a young Sartre obsessed with food.
http://icemcfd.com/wayne/sartre-cookbook.html

Slow Food

Organization promoting a slow, savoring approach to dining. News articles, current projects.
http://slowfood.com/

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/

Philosophy and Food

A short introduction to the topic by Jeremy Iggers. Published in 2001 in Philosophy Now.
http://www.philosophynow.org/archive/articles/31iggers.htm
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