“What is a Recipe?”: Lecture & Tasting with Andrea Borghini

In this lecture Borghini will map out the main philosophical questions that a study of recipes elicits, motivating their significance to efforts in rethinking food in global societies.

Andrea Borghini is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Milan, Italy. For the Fall 2024, he is a visiting faculty at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. His research develops theoretical tools to rethink how we represent, sense, and feel about food, eating, and culinary cultures. He is a co-founder and director of Culinary Mind, the main international network promoting philosophical thinking on food.

Andrea studied logic and philosophy in Florence, Italy, and did his graduate work in logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of science at Columbia University under the supervision of Achille Varzi. For ten years he was on the faculty at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts.

Fun fact: Andrea is a native of central Tuscany, and is a passionate surfer since young age.