The Cabinet

of Dr. Callegari

Some of my work, if you like reading about food and wine:

On Dante and the social values of food in the late Middle Ages (my book!)

On eating and reproductive ability in Dante’s Purgatorio for MLN

On Marcella Hazan and gendered authority in Italian cookbooks in Eve’s Sinful Bite

On Italian foodways in moments of crisis for Life & Thyme

On Italian filmmaker and journalist Mario Soldati’s Vino al vino and ecomedia for The Italianist

On what to eat and drink and buy in Florence/Tuscany for Wine Spectator

On what to eat and drink and buy in Naples/Campania for Wine Spectator

On food, gender, and faith for Religions

On garlic for Taste

On spaghetti con le vongole for Taste

On pesto for Taste

On Dante’s social politics of food for Dante Studies

On the Futurist Cookbook for California Italian Studies

On badass nuns fighting with the pope for the Other Voice (NB not about food, but still important!)

On Dante’s explanation of how eating leads to making babies in Dante and Heterodoxy for Cambridge Scholars Press

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