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This volume focuses on the relationship between food, aesthetics, philosophy, and somaesthetics, exploring how food is much more than a biological necessity. It invites readers to rethink food as a central element of human life—one that intertwines culture, art, ethics, and aesthetics—and encourages a more mindful, sustainable engagement with it. Covering a range of topics—from the philosophy of taste to mindful eating, sustainability, lab-grown meat, obesity, and environmental responsibility—the essays in this volume demonstrate and expand the richness and potential of food philosophy through the lens of somaesthetics.

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Dorota Koczanowicz is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Wroclaw (Poland). She has published widely on aesthetics, gender, contemporary culture, art, and food, including The Aesthetics of Taste: Eating in the Realm of Art (Brill, 2023). Nicola Perullo is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo (Italy). He has published extensively on modern and contemporary philosophy and aesthetics. His works translated into English include Taste as Experience (Columbia University Press, 2016), Epistenology: Wine as Experience (Columbia University Press, 2020), and Aesthetics without Objects and Subjects (Bloomsbury, 2025).

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