Café au Lait to Latte: Charting the Acquisition of Culinary Capital by Italian Food in the United States

ZACHARY NOWAK is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at Harvard University. He is also the Associate Director of the Food & Sustainability Studies Program at the Umbra Institute in Perugia, Italy. His research interests are the importance (or lack thereof) of place for food history and environmental history. He is the author of Truffle: A Global History (Reaktion, 2015), the translator of Why Architects Still Draw (MIT Press, 2014), and the editor and translator of Inventing The Pizzeria: A History of Pizza Making in Naples (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming).