Robert T. Valgenti

RobertT. Valgenti is Professor of Liberal Arts and Applied Food Studies at theCulinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY, USA. His research interestsinclude the philosophy of food, philosophical hermeneutics, and contemporaryItalian philosophy. Recent publications include essays on recipes, terroir, artistic improvisation, thephilosophy of food, the aesthetics of Luigi Pareyson, the hermeneutics ofGianni Vattimo, and the philosophy of comedy. He is also a translator ofacademic works from Italian into English, which include Luigi Pareyson's Truth and Interpretation (2013), GianniVattimo's Of Reality (2017), GaetanoChiurazzi’s The Experience of Truth(2017) and Dynamis: Ontology of theIncommensurable (2021), Alessandro Bertinetto’s Aesthetics of Improvisation (2022), and Federico Vercellone’s The Illegitimate Age (2025).  He is currently a desk editor for the foodstudies journal Gastronomica and theResearch and Education Co-Chair for the Menus of Change University ResearchCollaborative (MCURC).