Simone Cinotto

Simone Cinotto is Professor of Modern History at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy, where he is Associate Dean for International Affairs and the Director of the master’s program in World Food Studies. He taught at New York University and Indiana University and was a fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University.

Cinotto is the author of Gastrofascism and Empire: Food in Italian East Africa, 1935-1941 (Bloomsbury 2024), The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City (University of Illinois Press 2013), Soft Soil Black Grapes: The Birth of Italian Winemaking in California (New York University Press 2012), and the editor of Food Mobilities: Making World Cuisines (University of Toronto Press 2023), Global Jewish Foodways: A History (University of Nebraska Press 2018), and Making Italian America: Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities (Fordham University Press 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.