Rachel E. Black is assistant professor and coordinator of the Gastronomy Program at Boston University USA. She edited Alcohol in Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood 2011) and has a forthcoming monograph Porta Palazzo: Food Place and Community at the market (University of Pennsylvania Press) that is an ethnographic study of an open-air market in Italy. Robert C. Ulin is Professor of Anthropology at Rochester Institute of Technology USA where he also served for two years as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Prior to coming to RIT Ulin served as Chair of Anthropology at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Vintages and Traditions and numerous articles on the anthropology of wine. He is also well known for his work on hermeneutics critical theory and historical anthropology. . Language: English