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Somaesthetics and Food
Series: - Studies in Somaesthetics, Volume: 10
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.
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).
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).
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
13 Introduction
Nicola Perullo and Dorota Koczanowicz
14 Food Consciousness: Its Importance to Human Life and the Three Main Obstacles to Its Development
Nicola Perullo
15 Everyday Foodscape: a Site for Practicing Care
Yuriko Saito
16 Embodying Responsibility: Somaesthetics, Art, and Eating for the Climate
Dorota Koczanowicz
17 Unpacking Disembodied Meat: Technology-Mediated Human Predation
Małgorzata Dancewicz-Pawlik
18 Mindful Experience Design: a Somaesthetic Perspective on Critical Food Design
Anna Kwapisz
19 The Licking Eye and the Seeing Tongue: Haptic Taste in Polish Contemporary Art
Marta Smolińska
20 Sounds of Eating: the Art of Food in David Rodríguez Vélez’s Artistic Sound Projects
Renata Tańczuk
21 Food Flavors in Italo Calvino: towards an Olfactory Somaesthetics
Elena Mancioppi
22 Embodiment, Eating, Environment: a Somaesthetic Approach to Obesity
Maddalena Borsato
23 Ecological Somaesthetics: beyond Self-Enhancement
Raymond Boisvert
24 LITTLEIMPORTANCE
Anna Królikiewicz
Notes on Contributors
13 Introduction
Nicola Perullo and Dorota Koczanowicz
14 Food Consciousness: Its Importance to Human Life and the Three Main Obstacles to Its Development
Nicola Perullo
15 Everyday Foodscape: a Site for Practicing Care
Yuriko Saito
16 Embodying Responsibility: Somaesthetics, Art, and Eating for the Climate
Dorota Koczanowicz
17 Unpacking Disembodied Meat: Technology-Mediated Human Predation
Małgorzata Dancewicz-Pawlik
18 Mindful Experience Design: a Somaesthetic Perspective on Critical Food Design
Anna Kwapisz
19 The Licking Eye and the Seeing Tongue: Haptic Taste in Polish Contemporary Art
Marta Smolińska
20 Sounds of Eating: the Art of Food in David Rodríguez Vélez’s Artistic Sound Projects
Renata Tańczuk
21 Food Flavors in Italo Calvino: towards an Olfactory Somaesthetics
Elena Mancioppi
22 Embodiment, Eating, Environment: a Somaesthetic Approach to Obesity
Maddalena Borsato
23 Ecological Somaesthetics: beyond Self-Enhancement
Raymond Boisvert
24 LITTLEIMPORTANCE
Anna Królikiewicz
It is an interdisciplinary project which can be of interest to students and researchers in philosophy, aesthetics, food studies, art, and cultural studies, working on issues related to the gustatory aesthetics.