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Food in philosophy. A possible definition for food may sound as follows: food is what every living being eats in order to fulfill its needs and desires. As food is a complex matter, this definition encompasses the multiple facets that concern food: hunger and nutrition, on one side, pleasure and gastronomy on the other. Food includes biological necessity, cultural preferences, personal taste and spiritual values.
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Perullo, N. (2020). Food. In: Vercellone, F., Tedesco, S. (eds) Glossary of Morphology. Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51324-5_41
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