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Trained in medical botany at the University of Pisa, Andrea Pieroni earned his doctorate in 1998 from the University of Bonn in Germany. He has worked as a Research Assistant at the School of Pharmacy, University of London (2000-2003), as a tenured Lecturer and, later, Senior Lecturer at the School of Life Sciences at the University of Bradford, UK (2003-2009). In January 2009, he was hired as an Associate Professor at the University of Pollenzo (www.unisg.it). Since 2016, he has been a Full Professor of Ethnobotany, and since October 2017, he has been Rector of the same university. Professor Pieroni has served as the Vice-President and President of the International Society of Ethnobiology (2008-2010). He is the founder and Chief Editor of the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (www.ethnobiomed.com) and sits on the editorial boards of diverse international ethnoscientific journals. His research focuses on cross-cultural ethnobotany and traditional food in the Balkans and the Middle East and especially among mountain pastoralists and ethnic and religious minorities and diasporas.

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H. Rosi Song is Professor of Spanish at Bryn Mawr College and author of Lost in Transition: Constructing Memory in Contemporary Spain (2016), and she is co-editor of the volumes Traces of Contamination: Unearthing Francoist Legacy in Contemporary Spanish Discourse (2005) and Towards a Cultural Archive of la Movida: Back to the Future (2013). She has published widely on contemporary Spanish culture, film and literature. Her frequent travels to Barcelona over almost two decades have shaped her appreciation and knowledge of Catalan culture and its gastronomic traditions.

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Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology and convenor of the Bachelor's program in Gastronomic Sciences and Cultures at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy. He is one of the convenors of the Anthropology of Economy Network at the European Association of Social Anthropology. His research focuses on the intersection between artisanship, entrepreneurship and local development with attention on the food sector. He conducted fieldwork in Southern Europe and Eastern Africa, publishing numerous works, notably The End of the City of Gold?: Industrial and Economic Crisis in an Italian Jewellery Town (Cambridge Scholars, 2013), Food Festivals and Local Development in Italy: A Viewpoint from Economic Anthropology (Palgrave, 2020), and, in Italian, Il cibo nel futuro: Produzione, consumo e socialità (Carocci, 2021, edited with Paolo Corvo).

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Dauro Mattia Zocchi is a Research Fellow in Economic and Political Geography at the University of Bergamo. He holds a PhD in Ecogastronomy, Education and Society from the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, where he developed a project on the social and cultural dynamics related to the promotion of food heritage in East Africa. His research focuses on food geography, food scouting, and the valorization of food heritage. He has conducted research projects in Africa (Kenya and Tanzania) and Latin America (Peru and Bolivia), mapping and documenting local gastronomic heritage. More recently, his work has also explored the socio-economic challenges of foodscapes in Alpine and pre-Alpine areas through the promotion of cultural and creative tourism.