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Pain

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Solving chronic pain via the kitchen, not the medicine cabinet

While medicine still struggles with the mystery of chronic pain, simple dietary changes can bring much-needed relief

by Rowena Field

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Food and drink

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If you don’t fancy mindfulness, then try cooking instead

When overwhelmed I schedule in a cooking day: playful, daring and full of memories. Beats any other stress-reliever for me

by Chloe Faure

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Altered states

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Here’s to my lovely, incandescent relationship with alcohol

Liquid gold, social pass, window on to the past, filter of life experience: my love affair with alcohol has no downside

by Anandi Mishra

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The body and physical health

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Practise ‘intuitive eating’ and feel a lot happier about food

Practise ‘intuitive eating’ and free yourself from worrying about food and the ricochet between dieting and indulging in it

by Charlotte H Markey

A painting of six men playing cards in a rustic room with a fireplace and ladder. One man wears a red hat.

Drugs and psychedelics

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What can Kant tell us about the perils and promise of booze?

Drinking like a philosopher: what does Immanuel Kant have to say about the role of intoxication in our overlooked lives?

by Matthew Perkins-McVey

People dining at long tables adorned with blue tablecloths in a narrow, lantern-lit street lined with old buildings and blue-and-white flags.

Community

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Take a seat: the long table is an antidote to loneliness

While some consider the long, shared dining table outdated or inconvenient, it is actually a powerful social tool

by Antone Martinho-Truswell

Close-up of a cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato, pickles, red onion, and sauce in a sesame seed bun.

Ethics

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A fake-meat burger, a sex doll and a thought experiment

How is enjoying a burger, even if it’s one made of fake meat, different from enjoying a female, even if she’s a sex doll?

by Rebecca Lowe

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Pleasures and pastimes

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The brewer, the yeast, and the boundaries of human agency

The brewer and the yeast: why brewing beer sheds light on the philosophical debate about the boundaries of human agency

by Andrei A Buckareff

Indian miniature painting of three figures with flowers and a fan on a terrace, bordered with gold leaf.

Artists and art history

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The art of Mughal India is best appreciated with all the senses

Experience the multiple layers of sensory pleasure and meaning conveyed through scented flowers in the art of Mughal India

by Bharti Lalwani & Nicolas Roth

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Food and drink

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There is more to the experience of wine than its taste alone

Wine is never just itself. It is not an object to be measured but an encounter to be experienced within its surroundings

by Nicola Perullo

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Food and drink

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La cucina povera delivers the fare we need to sustain us now

La cucina povera made do with whatever was available in nonna’s kitchen garden, and remains the perfect fare for our times

by Louise Fabiani

A person cooks mushrooms in a pan on a stove with pasta in a colander and various ingredients spread on the kitchen counter.

Eating disorders

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Learning to cook taught me that self-care isn’t selfish

In healing my relationship with food and cooking, I saw how caring for myself was the first step toward caring for others

by Céline Leboeuf