Disciplining Polenta: A Parody on the Politics of Saving Food Available to Purchase

Zachary Nowak is a College Fellow in the Harvard History Department. He is also Associate Director of the Center for Food & Sustainability Studies at the Umbra Institute. Nowak has written about the history of pizzerias in Naples, Chianti wine in California, unsalted bread found in Perugia, truffles found all over the world, and terroir found only in the imagination and nowhere in the soil.

Bradley M. Jones is a PhD candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. His research explores alternative agriculture, human/environmental relations, and neo-agrarianism in the United States.

Elisa Ascione is Coordinator of the Center for Food & Sustainability Studies at the Umbra Institute, Perugia, Italy. She teaches courses on sustainability and food production in Italy and on the anthropology of food. She has published articles on heritagization processes of foods in central Italy and on migration, work, and gender relations.