{"id":4111,"date":"2014-04-02T23:44:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T03:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gastronomyatbu.com\/?p=4111"},"modified":"2018-03-28T17:49:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T21:49:52","slug":"congratulations-bill-nesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/2014\/04\/02\/congratulations-bill-nesto\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Bill Nesto!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I am happy to announce the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foodandwine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Programs in Food, Wine &amp; the Art\u2019s<\/a> very own Bill Nesto has won an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andresimon.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andr\u00e9 Simon Food and Drink Book Award<\/a>! Nesto and his co-author Frances Di Savino were granted the 2013 prize in the drink category for their book <i>The World of Sicilian Wine.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Andr\u00e9 Simon Food and Drink book awards are granted by the Trustees of the Andr\u00e9 Simon Memorial Fund, which has honored gastronomic literature since its founding in 1965. Other prizes include the 2013 prize in the food category, Special Commendation, and the John Avery Award. In addition, eight books are honored on the shortlist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Bill Nesto is a certified Master of Wine and teaches Wine Studies at Boston University. You can visit his blog <a href=\"http:\/\/theworldofsicilianwine.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/files\/2014\/04\/nesto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4112\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/files\/2014\/04\/nesto.jpg\" alt=\"nesto\" width=\"300\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am happy to announce the Programs in Food, Wine &amp; the Art\u2019s very own Bill Nesto has won an Andr\u00e9 Simon Food and Drink Book Award! Nesto and his co-author Frances Di Savino were granted the 2013 prize in the drink category for their book The World of Sicilian Wine. The Andr\u00e9 Simon Food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14625,"featured_media":4112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,12],"tags":[54,111],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8319,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions\/8319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}