Miscellanea

The Sophie Coe Prize in Food History:
- Winner, 2018 for “A l’Américaine or à l’Armoricaine? A New World Dish in French Regional Cookery and Haute Cuisine.”
- Winner, 2005 for “Western Mediterranean Vegetable Stews and the Integration of Culinary Exotica.”
- Highly Commended, 2017 for “Un Vrai Jambalaya – ‘A Real mess.’ The Southern French Origins of Louisiana’s Famous Dish and its Surprising Connexions to ‘Hopping John’.” Revised version published in NY Food Story, 2018: https://www.nyfoodstory.com/articles/hopping-john-and-its-surprising-connection-to-jambalaya/
- Highly Commended, 2016 for “Defining Cuisine: Communication, Culinary Grammar and the Typology of Cuisine.”
- Commended, 2015 for “The Merchants of Genoa and the Diffusion of Southern Italian Pasta Culture in Europe.”
Culinary Historians of New York Scholar’s Grant, 2016, for “From Kongri to Diri ak Djondjon: Slavery, Creolization and Culinary Genesis in Saint-Domingue and Independent Haiti.”
Recipes for spaghetti alle alici e noci and pollo al forno con patate e piselli, in Ethnic American Cooking, Lucy M. Long (ed.), pp. 147-150. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. [pdf]
Symposiasts at Work: Anthony F. Buccini. Oxford Symposium blog post by Andrew Dalby, June 2016
Eat This podcast, June 2014: “Who invented dried pasta?” (on material published in “The Merchants of Genoa and the Diffusion of Southern Italian Pasta Culture in Europe”)

Invited speaker, Symposium on Early Modern Travel, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, October, 2015. “Culinary Bricolage and the Marginal Majority: Unwilling Travellers, Cultural Baggage, and the Genesis of Creole Cuisines.”

Invited speaker, Colloquium on the Historicity of the Franconization, Leiden University, April, 2014. “De Frankisering in de Lage Landen en Noord-Frankrijk: 500-1000 A.D.: Taalcontact, Herstructurering en Taalformatie.”

Invited speaker, Symposium on Johannes De Laet, Leiden University, the Netherlands, October, 1997. “Johannes De Laet and the Study of Native American Languages.”
Invited address, Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, Ghent, Belgium, November, 1995. “Ontstaan en vroegste ontwikkeling van het Nederlandse taallandschap.” (Published version)
Fulbright-Hays scholar, Belgium 1988-1989.

Co-designer and developer of Empires of the Middle Ages (complex historical simulation board game; SPI), winner of the Charles S. Roberts Best Pre-Twentieth Century Game prize, 1980.

Anthony F. Buccini, Ph.D.