Arts
Food and drink—eating and drinking—in some examples from fiction and comics. Basically I found a collection of Kingsley Amis's short fiction in a pile of free stuff at work and thought it was really cool that he made up a subgenre of speculative fiction just about wine. He calls it SF-drink. Then I found out that he'd written the stories for a series of anthologies called The Compleat Imbiber, edited by this guy Cyril Ray, who was a prominent wine critic and a literal champagne socialist (Amis, on the other hand, was conservative grouch). All that got me thinking about other stories that involve tasting things, with a special interest in how the sensory experience gets translated into words or pictures. This process often leads tasters and discerners to develop their own terms and habits, form a culture.