What is a recipe and what exactly is it that one does? Sure, a recipe can give you directions to dinner, but what other worlds does it story and perhaps even build?

Organized within the framework of RELISH (Reframing European Gastronomy Legacy through Innovation, Sustainability and Heritage), a European Union Horizon project, next week I’m excited to return to the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy, for the workshop “Recipes and Gastronomy as Cultural Heritage: Meaning, Methodology, and Media.” My paper—Tongues and their Mothers, Ingredients and their Understudies—considers the politics of names and substitutions by asking: When does a recipe stop being one dish and, instead, turns into another?