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When I try a wine and I HATE it, but I can totally understand that it's good wine (no flaws, I can see why others might like it), I think that's what having "taste" is.
Apart from my subjective judgment, I can usefully apply the label "beautiful" to things I observe. To taste is to be a living being, but to have taste is to be human.
Apart from my subjective judgment, I can usefully apply the label "beautiful" to things I observe. To taste is to be a living being, but to have taste is to be human.
Overthink Podcast • Kant on the beautiful and taste: Critique of Judgment
Taste is inescapable; it involves “the most everyday choices of everyday life, e.g., in cooking, clothing, or decoration,” the French sociologist Pierre
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
taste can be a practice—a result, even, of living authentically.
Haley Nahman • #176: Accounting for taste
Notes on Taste - Brie Wolfson
LinkTaste is the bone-deep feeling that you’ve made something good. It is a sense, inexplicable and ephemeral. But it’s also a tangible skill that’s increasingly essential. Taste is how a business differentiates itself when attention is scarce and choice is abundant. Knowing what to make is just as important as the ability to make it.
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
Food that thrills, satisfies hunger, nourishes, invites, is hospitable. Acidic, bright, but the warming nature of sichuan or Mexican. The herbaciousness of Nordic food.