How to pronounce “bolo” in English

During the French Revolution, he fought alongside Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the father of the famous author Alexandre Dumas.Joseph Bologne became Marie Antoinette's music teacher.And in 1776, at the age of 30, it was recommended that he become the new music director of the Paris Opera until two singers and one

And since I was 14, she was bringing a bologna sandwich-- are you calling mortadella bologna right here?So bologna sandwich-- that's bologna, from Bologna-- in a backpack, saying, Massimo, .You have to eat.

before anything actually made it onto vinyl at the time."My Bologna" was the first big hit.But prior to that I had a lot of parodies and originals that were of substandard quality.

In the Middle Ages, there were dozens of universities. You can keep them all in your head. Therewas Bologna and Padua; Barcelona and Paris. Later on Oxford. There were just dozens of them. Not a large number. And they went through the same kinds of processes that we're talkingabout now. They became inwardly focused. They became entitled. They became ossified. A lot of people called them 'homes of out-moded knowledge', reading the critics of the day.

may have kept a few bright sparks, um, Italy may have a few foreign like there is a Texas A&M branch in Castiglion Fiorentino, John Hopkins one, just picking on a few you mentioned,in Bologna. And so on, but they're really not working on a mass scale at all. The mass will tend to the same egalitarian mediocrity and you mentioned the cultural suspicion.Well, you don't know what cultural suspicion of America is until you've been to France, which you have of course, but compared with that it's like, so I don't see any private

And they ended up going out of business at a certain point.It then became Bolo, under Bobby Flay.And now it's a wreck-ball site.

So the secret ingredient to a Bolognese that you would do.So I have a Bolognese recipe, not in the book but on my blog.And I use red lentils and walnuts.

Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us today for this talk with Mike Curato.My name is Mike Bolognino, and I'm a Product Marketing Manager, and I'll be moderating this talk.For those of you who aren't familiar with him, Mike's an award-winning author/illustrator of children's books.

And I got to spend a lot of time with him and his family.This is Ahlam Bolooki.

The more that you use your training them, and so that was always incredibly important to me.And I was in Bologna, working at a pasta laboratorio, at the time and I just had to go back to San Francisco.The honest story is my girlfriend was here at the time, and I really wanted to move back to San Francisco, and working at these amazing restaurants and on some farms.

It was perfect timing.I was in Bologna, which is the heart of-- Emilia-Romagna in Italy is really the heart of what most Americans thinkof as Italian food.

But as I sat down for lunch, I realized that when my friends took out their brown bags with their peanut butterand jelly and their bologna sandwiches with Fritos, that I basically had a lunch that was not tradable.So I had completely destroyed my social capital.

And you would find your way to some out-of-the-way bistro in the countryside of France, or trattoria in the countrysideoutside of Bologna, let's say.And you would take your Michelin map and do the best you could to find these little roads that barely even existed

armies professional Merchant guilds uh all universities the great University ofof the world from bolognia to Oxford were founded in exactly that period a thousand years ago um we're allindependent actors they all again pursued their own diplomatic relationships again much like today so a

And what did he tell me? He had media training. And the media trainer told him never say anythingnegative which is absolutely bologna baloney and nonsense.Because sometimes you do have to do use negative words,; otherwise people just aren't gonna believe you. If you're in a situation where there's a high degree of concern and a low

voters. Is that a change from your first 1970s?salami or bologna. I think the reapportion will have some of the same characteristics. The fact is, people are grouping themselves.

And there's a Middle Eastern bolognese as well because every house has to have a good spag bol.

I love that. And then I want you to veganize these common dishes, or shout out-- we mentioned some of these recipes in the book.So the secret ingredient to a Bolognese that you would do.So I have a Bolognese recipe, not in the book but on my blog.

I'll do a quick Bolognese, also with store-bought marinara.

A contemporary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.But why isn't Joseph Bologne a household name?It's definitely not for a lack of talent.

How did your view of cooking it and eating it change?And I didn't go to Bologna to be like, wow, they use avocados here, too.

What is Italy in a very deep way?Look at foggy parts of Bologna or the wind of Pantelleria that is like giving this feeling of salty capersnaturally in the middle of the sea.

He's a physician from Bologna named Taddeo Alderotti.

So I went to his archive in Bologna, Italy, and dug around and found a lot of stuff that really demonstrates that he could do a lot of pretty advanced things in quite a lot of

They have this thing called the Bologna Process, where the EU is trying to integrate some of the educational stuff going on in higher education.

river was so shallow that even an oxen could ford.What he did was go right to Bologna and steal the top academics. There was a lot of that going on in the Middle Ages as well.Ben: That's right, that's right.

Ben: That's right, that's right.Person 2 from audience: I'm from Bologna, that's why I'm so knowledgeable on the subject.Ben: Ah, I understand. Ok Person 3 from audience: Hi there, what is the role of the internet to help flatten

I think, there's a lot of initiatives that we have, which also focus on student learning directly.I think a good example that comes to mind is Google Bolo, which is an app that we recently launched.So for those of you who don't know about it, Google Bolo is an app which is like a personalized

Yes, spaghetti Bolognese for dinner.

And often those meals-- and it might be just spaghetti Bolognese will go on for two hours-- because of the conversation.

Einat is the chef and owner of Tain Balaboosta and Bar Bolonat.

And it might not have worked in 16th century Bologna or something, or with a kid who was

The metal hand-cranked machines, they're all over Italy.They don't exist in the old walls of Bologna, and everything's rolled out by a giant matterello.It's a massive rolling pin.

had on California cooking, how many things get crazily mistranslated when they're brought here.And I think that things like from Emilia-Romagna and Bologna-- like tortellini, for example-- feels like one of the most tortured things in the world.What is that supposed to look like?

What is tortellini about?Tortellini in brodo is like the pinnacle of Bologna or Emilia-Romagna food.It's used as a standard of whether it's sub-par or traditional.

You worked in Italian restaurants before you made this seminal trip to Bologna.And then you talk about when you're in Bologna, just that really opening your eyes to how pasta is supposed to be eaten.How did your view of cooking it and eating it change?

This is in Emilia Romagna which is the area around Bologna in Spain. And they have a 125 year history of worker cooperatives. And in fact 35 to 40% of their GDP comes from worker

ability to be mobile. So I think there are some promising things going on in Europe. But you're right. Bologna was one of the seats of the creation of universities:Paris, Bologna, Oxford. And it's a tragedy that it no longer has that...Person 2 from audience: When the King of England wanted to establish a University, in a place of so little distinction, that the best thing it was known for was that the

man who uh in Padova especially but also in Bolognia actually started to dissect corpses

The men are wearing odds and ends reminiscent of other worlds and times-- a bolo tie, a bandanna, a striped railroad cap,

One collected from an IBM Blue Gene/Q installation that we have access to in Bologna.

And it's something that they produce.So a salumeria is something that is based off of historic shops in Bologna that sell cured meats, and they sell pasta by the pound.Some will specialize in a little bit more cheese.

We did a great job.I want to go back to those formative experiences you were having in Bologna.You talk about, in the book, going beyond just like to the trattorias on the street and just the tourist places, and finding these experiences that

I think that, too, it's like, more, bigger, more.You worked in Italian restaurants before you made this seminal trip to Bologna.And then you talk about when you're in Bologna, just that really opening your eyes to how pasta is supposed to be eaten.

hummus with all kinds of creative toppings, like bolognese on top of hummus, mushroom ragu, it went away, thankfully very quickly, because--

I think a good example that comes to mind is Google Bolo, which is an app that we recently launched.So for those of you who don't know about it, Google Bolo is an app which is like a personalizedinstructor for students who are learning language.

You may have imagined this composer when you heard the opening piece.In fact, this first piece was written by a composer named Joseph Bologne, a.k.a.Chevalier de Saint Georges, a contemporary of-- oh, where did he go?

And the second one being a research machine, again built in Bologna, called the Aurora.

And so that takes us to 2013, when we exhibited some of our artwork at the Bologna Children's Book Fair.