{"id":4616,"date":"2014-12-04T14:06:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T18:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gastronomyatbu.com\/?p=4616"},"modified":"2018-03-28T17:49:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T21:49:39","slug":"honoring-the-work-of-domenico-sestini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/2014\/12\/04\/honoring-the-work-of-domenico-sestini\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring the Work of Domenico Sestini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/files\/2014\/12\/pa220015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4617 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/files\/2014\/12\/pa220015.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/files\/2014\/12\/pa220015.jpg 3456w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/files\/2014\/12\/pa220015-477x636.jpg 477w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/files\/2014\/12\/pa220015-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>On <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Wednesday, October 22<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0 Bill Nesto M.W. , Metropolitan College Wine Studies instructor, and Frances Di Savino presented the book which they co-authored,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book.php?isbn=9780520266186\">The World of Sicilian Wine<\/a> (UC Press, 2013), at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgofili.it\/home.asp?lang=ita\">Accademia dei Georgofili<\/a>, in Florence, Italy.\u00a0\u00a0 Since 1753, the Academy has promoted practical research in the fields of agronomy, forestry, geography, and agriculture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Bill and Frances lectured about the culture of wine in Sicily in honor of Domenico Sestini (1750-1832) whose memoirs of his research in Sicily were an important source for their book on Sicilian wine.\u00a0 Sestini was an accurate and sensitive observer of Sicilian viticulture and enology.\u00a0 A member of the Georgofili himself, he lectured to its members, on three occasions in 1812. He wanted to inform them about the inspiring achievements that Sicilians had made in cultivating wine grapes, making wine, and exporting it abroad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">More than 200 years later, Nesto and Di Savino came back to the Accademia dei Georgofili to continue his work, to honor it, and to thank him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, October 22,\u00a0 Bill Nesto M.W. , Metropolitan College Wine Studies instructor, and Frances Di Savino presented the book which they co-authored,\u00a0 The World of Sicilian Wine (UC Press, 2013), at the Accademia dei Georgofili, in Florence, Italy.\u00a0\u00a0 Since 1753, the Academy has promoted practical research in the fields of agronomy, forestry, geography, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[36,111,128,137,138,257,288,326,357,368,390,391,470,592,594,793,861,898,912,915],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616"}],"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=4616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8287,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions\/8287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}