Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz is PhD, McGill University (1993). He is a full-time Research Professor at the Autonomous University of Yucatán and sni ii. He conducts research on the relationships between cuisine, food and identity, technologies and cuisine, and on the cultural and political aspects of taste, in Yucatán since 2000, and in Seville, Spain, since 2016. He has published the monograph Foodscapes, Foodfields and Identities in Yucatán (cedla and Berghahn, 2012), co-authored with G. Vargas Cetina and F. Fernández Repetto, Cooking, Music and Communication. Technologies and aesthetics in Contemporary Yucatán (wow, 2016). He has edited eight books, including Cooking Technology. Transformations in Culinary Practice in Mexico and Latin America (2016), Taste, Politics and Identities in Mexican Food (2019) and Food, Taste and the Politics of Identity. Global Approaches (2021), these three by Bloomsbury Academic.