Silvano Serventi is a historian of food and of French and Italian culinary practices. He is the author of many books, includingThe Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy (with Odile Redon and Françoise Sabban). Françoise Sabban is a sinologist and director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Antony Shugaar is coauthor ofLatitude Zero: Tales of the Equator and translator ofThe Judge and the Historian by Carlo Ginzburg, andNiccolo's Smile andRepublicanism by Maurizio Viroli. He lives in Arlington, VA. |