Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History is a 23-book series with 23 released primary works first released in 1993 with contributions by Hervé This, Giovanni Rebora, Alberto Capatti, Massimo Montanari, Carlo Petrini, Colin Spencer, James McWilliams, Frederick Douglass Opie, Andrew F. Smith, Beth Archer Brombert, Cesar Vega Morales, Gyorgy Scrinis, Nicola Perullo, Brian R. Dott, Michael Symons, Guy Crosby, and Anne Mendelson.