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Convivium: The Philosophy and Food Roundtable Association of philosophers studying the significance of food. Events, membership information, organizational history, links. http://gustavus.edu/groups/convivium/

Eating the World: Food Without Frontiers Article by Roger Scruton examining the relation of modernity to the culture of food. http://www.opendemocracy.net/ecology-foodwithoutfrontiers/debate.jsp

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

The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook Humorous sketch imagining a young Sartre obsessed with food. http://www.pvspade.com/Sartre/cookbook.html

Myodicy: A Christian Philosophy of Food Selection An academic paper on a Christian approach to which foods to eat, in pdf format. [PDF] http://www.calvin.edu/academic/philosophy/virtual_library/articles/plantinga_ted/the_scoffer_and_the_believer_toward_a_christian_philosophy_of_food_selection.pdf

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

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

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/

Slow Food International movement opposing fast food and promoting dining as a source of pleasure. Newsletter, events, and membership information. http://slowfood.com/

The Unexamined Meal is Not Worth Eating Photo-tour of a seminar at Oregon State University on the philosophy of food. http://oregonstate.edu/dept/philosophy/IDEAS%20MATTER/IM%20March%2010%202005%20lecture.html