"The principle and root of all good is the pleasure of the belly; and the sophistication and refined [goods] are referred to this one"
Epicurus is the food philosopher if there ever was such a thing. I figured it would be convenient to post some of my resources.
General Information:
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epicurus/
Epicurean Philosophy Online: http://www.epicurus.info/
Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy: http://www.epicurus.net/
David Hume's Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary specifically The Epicurean: http://www.econlib.org/library/LFBooks/Hume/hmMPL15.html
Epicurus' name has been appropriated into the global foodscape in a variety of ways:
Epicurean Magazine 1966-1979 info: http://www.thenarrows.org/pdfs/2010/poster-3.pdf
Epicurus.com: http://www.epicurus.com/
My Work with Epicurus:
“Come Clean Slow Food, Epicurus is Your Intellectual Heritage: Tracing Epicurus and Epicureanism into the Contemporary Food Environment.”
Food Studies Conference, Las Vegas, December 2011
“The poetics of Epicurus’ garden: Creating safety, freedom, and self-sufficiency.”
Session Title: Poetics for the Polis
NCA, New Orleans, November 2011