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Comment on Book launch at the AAR: Oretta Zanini De Vita’s Encyclopedia of Pasta by No Thanks to Marco Polo: An Encyclopedia of Italy’s Pasta Shapes « Gherkins & Tomatoes

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:31:47 +0000

[...] culinary repertoire. But Marco Polo did NOT bring pasta to Italy. And 73-year-old Italian author Oretta Zanini de Vita wants you to know that, immediately, upfront and [...]

Comment on Book launch at the AAR: Oretta Zanini De Vita’s Encyclopedia of Pasta by Week 5: Pasta, Passion, and Discovering Parallels in the Technical Work of Vitruvius « In the Footsteps of Vitruvius

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:20:55 +0000

[...] Encyclopedia of Pasta, by the notable Italian food author and researcher Oretta Zanini De Vita. The event included talks by the author, translator, publisher, and the Sous Chef of the AAR kitchen, Chris [...]

Comment on Celebrating the 2nd anniversary of the Academy’s Rome Sustainable Food Project by Week 5: Pasta, Passion, and Discovering Parallels in the Technical Work of Vitruvius « In the Footsteps of Vitruvius

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:08:09 +0000

[...] Panisse in Berkeley CA several years ago to help lead the renaissance of the AAR kitchens and the Rome Sustainable Food Project. Chris spoke so passionately and eloquently about the pasta and food of Italy, and specifically [...]

Comment on Endowing a Permissions Assistant for the Academy: a challenge gift by Philadelphia architects Stephen Kieran (FAAR’81) and James Timberlake (FAAR’83) by For the latest from the AAR and its alums, Spring 2009 SOF News now online « Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome Weblog

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:52:31 +0000

[...] challenge by architects Stephen Kieran FAAR’81 and James Timberlake FAAR’83 to set up a Permissions Assistant Endowment. And of course lots of other news of books, exhibitions, works, and passages by members of the [...]

Comment on NYC photo exhibit explores architectural work at the pre-WWII American Academy in Rome by For the latest from the AAR and its alums, Spring 2009 SOF News now online « Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome Weblog

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:52:28 +0000

[...] to the exhibition of architectural drawings by pre-WW II Academy Fellows that they curated, now on display at AAR offices in New [...]

Comment on Big, bold, and now online: the Winter 2008/9 SOF News by For the latest from the AAR and its alums, Spring 2009 SOF News now online « Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome Weblog

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:52:25 +0000

[...] the Society of Fellows News rolled off the presses and into our mailboxes. And at the same time a downloadable .pdf version on the SOF webpage joined seven year’s worth of archived back [...]

Comment on New LIFE magazine online photo archive sheds light on AAR for ’40s, ’50s by From LIFE archives, more unpublished glimpses of 1957 American Academy in Rome « Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome Weblog

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:21:09 +0000

[...] December the Society of Fellows Weblog reported on the first batch of images that the LIFE/Google partnership produced: about 125 largely [...]

Comment on Celebrating the 2nd anniversary of the Academy’s Rome Sustainable Food Project by Academy Benefits: Looking back at Ojai, and ahead to April and May galas in New York, Rome « Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome Weblog

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:32:19 +0000

[...] Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome Weblog Latest news from the SOF and AAR « Celebrating the 2nd anniversary of the Academy’s Rome Sustainable Food Project [...]

Comment on Big, bold, and now online: the Winter 2008/9 SOF News by Three questions for Anthony Doerr, FAAR’05, author of AAR memoir Four Seasons in Rome « Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome Weblog

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:51:41 +0000

[...] an except from the book (entitled “Starlings”) appeared in the Winter 2008/9 number of the SOF News (p. 7), the SOF Weblog wrote to Doerr (first on vacation in Mexico, then back home in Idaho) to ask [...]

Comment on Greening the Academy: SOF holiday gift to AAR benefits Rome Sustainable Food Project by Letter from SOF President: why your 2009 dues matter « Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome Weblog

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:19:02 +0000

[...] recast to appear once again as a semiannual publication. In the past year the SOF Council made a major gift to the entire Academy community in Rome to support its “greening” efforts, and also to [...]