Massimo Montanari, currently Professor of Medieval History at Bologna University, is a scholar in Food Studies. He has been invited as visiting professor to a number of leading universities in Europe, Japan, the United States, Mexico and Canada, and is one of the founders of the international review Food & History.

Gregory Conti teaches English at the University of Perugia and is a regular contributor to Raritan. His most recent translations are Seven Poems by Elisa Biagini and The Fault Line by Paolo Rumiz (Rizzoli USA, 2015).