<b></b><b>Simona Stano</b> is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the University of Turin (UNITO, Italy) and Visiting Researcher at New York University (NYU, US). She has been awarded a Marie Curie Global Fellowship for a research project (“COMFECTION”, 2019-2021) on the semiotic analysis of food communication. She also worked as Senior Researcher at the International Semiotics Institute (2015-2018) and as Visiting Researcher at the University of Toronto (2013), the University of Barcelona (2015-2016) and the “Observatorio de la Alimentación” (2015-2016). Dr. Stano deals mainly with semiotics of culture, food semiotics, body semiotics, and communication studies, and has published several papers, edited volumes (including special issues of top semiotic journals such as <i>Semiotica</i> and <i>Lexia</i>), and monographs (<i>I sensi del cibo, </i>Aracne<i>,</i> 2018; <i>Eating the Other. Translations of the Culinary Cod</i>e, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015) on these topics. Since 2020, she is the vice-Director of the <i>Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Communication</i> (CIRCe) of the University of Turin. <div><br></div><div><b>Amy Bentley </b>is Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University. A historian with interests in the social, historical, and cultural contexts of food, she is the author of <i>Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet</i> (University of California Press, 2014), which was a finalist for a James Beard Award, and also winner of the ASFS Best Book Award. Other publications include <i>Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity</i> (University of Illinois, 1998), <i>A Cultural History of Food in the Modern Era </i>(editor) (Berg, 2011), as well as articles on such diverse topics as ketchup in Reagan's America, the politics of southwestern cuisine, and a historiography of food riots. In addition to her work as a food historian, she’s been involved in a wide range of food-related academic and applied projects, including as co-founder of the NYU Urban Farm Lab and the Experimental Cuisine Collective (2007-2016). The former Editor-in-Chief of <i>Food, Culture, and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research</i> (2013-2019), Bentley is co-editor of the book series <i>Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations</i> (Bloomsbury). <br></div>