Food and drink
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Food and drink
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What our fantasies about futuristic food say about us
Once ‘future foods’ were powdered and automatic, but times change and today they have become about speed and social justice
by Kelly Alexander