Kitchen Playdates or Wine and Philosophy

Kitchen Playdates: Easy Ideas for Entertaining That Includes the Kids ** 70 Delicious Recipes

Author: Lauren Bank Deen

Sophisticated entertaining with kids? Lauren Bank Deen proves that it is not only possible, but great fun, too! Filled with 70 delicious recipes, varied menus, and themed activities, Kitchen Playdates offers parents a new way to socialize with friends and family without resorting to pizza. This handy cookbook includes "Kids in the Kitchen" notes with each recipe, providing age-appropriate tasks to keep children busy (and safe). And tons of creative all-ages craft ideas allow everyone to get involved when there are too many cooks in the kitchen. For easy, don't-miss house parties that are truly fun for the whole family, come on over for a Kitchen Playdate!

New interesting book:

Wine and Philosophy: A Symposium on Thinking and Drinking

Author: Fritz Allhoff

Wine & Philosophy offers a collection of essays which explore a range of philosophical topics related to food; it joins Food & Philosophy and Beer & Philosophy in in the "Epicurean Trilogy." Essays are organized thematically and written by philosophers, wine writers, and winemakers.

• Chapters include, “The Art & Culture of Wine”; “Tasting & Talking about Wine”; “Wine & Its Critics”; “The Beauty of Wine”; “The Metaphysics of Wine”; and “The Politics & Economics of Wine”
  
• Essays are accessible to a general audience while at the same time covering some serious philosophical ground
  
• Incorporates traditional areas of philosophical study, including philosophy of language, philosophy of perception, aesthetics, metaphysics, ethics and political philosophy
  
• A great complimentary text to any guided-tour visit to the Napa Valley or other wineries

Table of Contents:

List of Figures     viii
Foreword   Paul Draper     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
Planting the Vines: An Introduction   Fritz Allhoff     1
The Art & Culture of Wine     13
Wine in Ancient Greece: Some Platonist Ponderings   Harold Tarrant     15
On and Off the Wagon: Wine and the American Character   Jonathon Alsop     30
Muse in a Stem Glass: Art, Wine, and Philosophy   Kirsten Ditterich-Shilakes     44
In Vino Sanitas   Frederick Adolf Paola     63
Tasting & Talking about Wine     79
Mmmm...not Aha! Imaginative vs. Analytical Experiences of Wines   John Dilworth     81
Talk about Wine?   Kent Bach     95
Winespeak or Critical Communication? Why People Talk about Wine   Keith Lehrer   Adrienne Lehrer     111
Wine & Its Critics     123
What the Wine Critic Tells Us   John W. Bender     125
Experiencing Wine: Why Critics Mess Up (Some of the Time)   Jamie Goode     137
The Beauty of Wine     155
You'll Never Drink Alone: Wine Tasting and Aesthetic Practice   Douglas Burnham   Ole Martin Skilleas     157
Who Cares If You Like It, This Is a Good Wine Regardless   George Gale     172
Listening to the Wine Consumer: The Art of Drinking   Steve Charters     186
Wine & Metaphysics     203
Is There Coffee or Blackberry in My Wine?   Kevin W. Sweeney     205
The Soul of Wine: Digging for Meaning   Randall Grahm     219
The Notion of Terroir   Matt Kramer     225
The Politics & Economics of Wine     235
Wine-Tasting Epiphany: An Analysis of the 1976 California vs. France Tasting   Orley Ashenfelter   Richard E. Quandt   George M. Taber     237
The Old World and the New: Worlds Apart?   Warren Winiarski     248
Taste How Expensive This Is: A Problem of Wine and Rationality   Justin Weinberg     257
Shipping across State Lines: Wine and the Law   Drew Massey     275
Notes on Contributors     288
Index     295