Dorota Koczanowicz is Professor and Head of Cultural Studies at the University of Wroclaw. She has published widely on aesthetics, gender, contemporary art, and culinary culture, including books and articles in Performance Research, Pragmatism Today, and The Monist.

• List of FiguresIntroduction1 The Antinomies of Taste1 The Judgments of Taste: David Hume2 Beauty: between the Subjective and the Universally Accepted3 Eat/Know: Kant and Brillat-Savarin4 Aesthetic Taste and Physiological Taste5 The Nature of Physiological Taste6 Eating as a Social Activity7 Appetite, Reason, and Health8 Sociability2 Taste and Its Value: Cultural Hierarchies1 Foods and Cooking Techniques2 Popular and Erudite Cuisines3 The Senses4 The Senses and Gender5 Towards Integration6 Art and Life3 Culinary Experience: a Pragmatist Perspective1 Teaching by Cooking2 The Rhythms of Life and Art3 The Experience of Art4 Educating Taste5 An Experience6 A Culinary Experience7 Characteristics of Experience8 Food as Art4 Somaesthetics and the Art of Eating1 Ambitions and Temptations2 Somaesthetics as an Art of Living3 The Art of Eating4 Body Memory5 The Kitchen: a World Next Door1 The Female Cook2 Martha Rosler: the Kitchen as the Prison of the Soul3 Elżbieta Jabłońska: the Impossible Kitchen4 Mierle Laderman Ukeles: the Art of Everyday Maintenance5 Marina Abramović: the Holy Cook6 The Women’s Place7 The Laboratory8 From Oppression to Terror: the Gastronomical Mother9 Coda6 Community around the Table1 Conversations at the Table2 Taste and Difference3 Community in the Making4 Impossible Community5 Designing Community6 Bridging the Gaps7 The Taste of Authenticity1 Out of the Comfort Zone2 Food Tourism3 Authenticity as a Commodity4 Immersion5 Returning Home6 Appropriation7 Avoiding Authenticity8 Leftovers1 Débris of the Meal2 Tensions3 Zoe en Stasei4 Commentary on Life5 The Restaurant6 Consummation9 Conclusion1 The Diffusion of Beauty2 The New SensoriumBibliographyIndex