This issue of “Prospero” has a monographic character and presents the contributions given to the conference held in Trieste in January 2005, “L’appetito vien leggendo: il cibo nell’immaginario letterario dal Medioevo alla contemporaneità”. The articles investigate, in a multidisciplinary and comparative way, the ancient and various ties between food and the written word, and the ways in which the imagery of food has represented and still does represent fundamental rituals of human experience, as well as extraordinary evocative moments.
