Food has been a topic of philosophy since before Plato. However, philosophical studies of food specifically were very rare before the late 20th century. 1. Convivium: The Philosophy and Food Roundtable - Association of philosophers studying the significance of food. Events, membership information, organizational history, links. 2. Eating the World: Food Without Frontiers - Article by Roger Scruton examining the relation of modernity to the culture of food. 3. Gastronomica - A quarterly journal for the scholarly study of food and food issues. 4. Myodicy: A Christian Philosophy of Food Selection - An academic paper on a Christian approach to which foods to eat, in pdf format. 5. Philosophy and Food - Consideration of the historic distance between philosophy and gastronomy, and of possibilities for bridging this gap. By Raymond D. Boisvert. 6. Philosophy and Food - A short introduction to the topic by Jeremy Iggers. Published in 2001 in Philosophy Now. 7. Slow Food - Organization promoting a slow, savoring approach to dining. News articles, current projects. 8. The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook - Humorous sketch imagining a young Sartre obsessed with food. 9. 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. 10. The Unexamined Meal is Not Worth Eating - Photo-tour of a seminar at Oregon State University on the philosophy of food.

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