Simone Cinotto is Professor of Modern History at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy, where he is the Director of the Master's program in World Food Studies and Reference Professor for Fulbright cultural exchange programs between Italy and the United States. He has been a visiting professor and research fellow at many international universities, including Columbia University, New York University, and Indiana University.

Cinotto is the author of Gastrofascism and Empire: Food in Italian East Africa, 1935-1941 (2024), The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City (2013), Soft Soil Black Grapes: The Birth of Italian Winemaking in California (2012), and the editor of Food Mobilities: Making World Cuisines (2023), Global Jewish Foodways: A History (University of Nebraska Press 2018), and Making Italian America: Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities (2014), which won the 2015 John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook/Primer of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. His article "Leonard Covello, the Covello Papers, and the Eating Habits of Italian Immigrants in New York" won the 2004 David Thelen Prize awarded by the Organization of American Historians for the best article on American History published in a language other than English, and was published in the Journal of American History.

Cinotto is on the Editorial Board of several journals, including Food, Culture, and Society, Gastronomica, Global Food History, and the Italian American Review.

Introduction

Part I: Imperial Gastronomies: Bioimperialism, Ethiopian Resistance, and the Itineraries of Food
1. Ethiopian Foodways and Italian Foodways: Frameworks of an Imperial Culinary Encounter
2. Fascist Bio-Imperialism in East Africa: Mass Colonization as Transplantation of Seeds, Breeds, and Farming Hands
3. Establishing Fascist Food System in East Africa: The Imperial Mobility of Italian Food and the Ethiopian Struggle for Food Sovereignty
Part II Colonial Gastronomies: Food Apartheid, Intercultural Practices of Taste, and the Senses
4. Forbidden Commensality in a Supremacist Society: Food and Racial Segregation in Italian Ethiopia
5. Liminal Colonial Gastronomies: Ethiopian-Italian Food Encounters in the Interstices of Segregation
6. The Empire of the Senses: Food Tastes, Disgusts, and Identities in Italian Ethiopia
Conclusion

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