Anna Martellotti, La cucina normannoaraba alla corte di Guglielmo II di Sicilia

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book review, Italian Food, medieval, gastronomy

Anna Martellotti, La cucina normannoaraba alla corte di Guglielmo II di Sicilia, Florence: Olschki, 2024, 384 pp. ISBN 9788822268952.

Alessandra Pino, Independent Scholar

Alessandra Pino is an expert on the intersections of the Gothic, food, and cultural memory. She holds degrees from ‘L’Orientale’ University, Naples (Italy), and from the University of Westminster (UK, MA in Translation Studies); she was awarded a PhD in Food, Cultural Memory, and the Gothic in 2022. Alessandra is the co-author of A Gothic Cookbook, which digs into food themes and motifs in a series of classic and contemporary novels from the nineteenth century to the present day and the co-host of Fear Feasts, a podcast which analyses the horror genre – films and books – through the lens of food. She publishes and speaks/lectures on the history of food, cultural memory, the supernatural, horror and the Gothic in journals, anthologies, TV and podcasts.