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Using the example of food preparation, learners not only acquire technical competences in Economy, Work and Home Economics lessons, but they can also be encouraged to develop social and intercultural competences. Cooking and eating together provides learners with a framework in which they can experience intercultural diversity, exchange ideas, and learn from each other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aesthetic nature of food and cooking is a neglected field in philosophical aesthetics. This neglect is due, among others, to the intellectual perspective on art and the anthropological dualism characteristic of modernism. In this essay the aesthetics of food and the art of cooking are explored. The system of food in philosophy firstly examined. In the second part, a distinction is made between natural and culinary gastronomical beauty. Attention is given to the development of some philosophical terminology applicable to the field of study, and the art of cooking analysed in contrast to other forms of artistic expression. In the last section, some cultural and political implications of the aesthetics of food and the art of cooking are considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]