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. There was 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 talking about 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
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 think of as Italian food.
But as I sat down for lunch, I realized that when my friends took out their brown bags with their peanut butter and 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 countryside outside 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
And what did he tell me? He had media training. And the media trainer told him never say anything negative 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.
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 capers naturally in the middle of the sea.
Oh, I should say one thing that made Takamine unique was that unlike most scientists of the time, he didn't mind patenting his processes. He's a physician from Bologna named Taddeo Alderotti.
And see how much evidence there is, how much contemporary evidence there is for actually being able to do that in all those languages. 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 languages. Not 72 of them, however, but a lot of substantial stuff.
An example of that right now is happening in Europe. 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. And one of the things they're trying to do is something called "student mobility," so it's easier for students to move across borders and from school to school.
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
And ended up there. 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?
Another example. Believe what you can see. 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 cooperatives. They also have a different model from Mondragon. Mondragon is, looks, its organization chart would like a typical corporation.
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
but an HPC setting. One collected from an IBM Blue Gene/Q installation that we have access to in Bologna . And the second one being a research machine, again built in Bologna , called the Aurora.
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.
One collected from an IBM Blue Gene/Q installation that we have access to in Bologna . And the second one being a research machine, again built in Bologna , called the Aurora. That is a hybrid HPC system that puts together CPUs, GPUs, and mix to achieve very high performance.
And so that takes us to 2013, when we exhibited some of our artwork at the Bologna Children's Book Fair.
And they had had that same epiphany that change the way they cook. So, what was that you encountered in these places in Bologna and Emilia-Romagna that struck a chord with you? I think that just kind of traveling the whole time that, if you-- growing up and having a completely ADD nature as a kid,
Why? In honor of my mother-- that she was the one who pushed me to be and to follow my passion through the kitchen. 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, .
So the Italian universities -- the first universities were what are called student-centered universities. Students would come from all over Europe, all over the world actually to places like Bologna because there was a concentration of scholars who knew about law in Bologna . But the university played virtually no role in that at all. Students would show up. They would decide whether or not they wanted to pay to attend. They would decide whether or
I mean, even the deli on my corner is subject to strict rules about food safety– and no bologna sub is going to be a threat to human society,
Yeah. Like yeah, we're doing this together, we're seeing Seattle for the first time or we're seeing Bologna for the first time
What I'd like to do this afternoon is to introduce Ozalp Babaoglu, who is a full professor at Bologna Computer Science and Engineering. And he's going to be talking to us about some stuff around his ideas around sustainable computing with data science.
opens those doors for you? Yeah, certainly. I was so fortunate when I rented an apartment in Bologna . I didn't realize that I was renting an apartment from someone that does culinary tours.
Italy has a place, you will probably know it better than I do, Bacconi University, which is a private university, and they have a goal for example of, I'm not sure how close they are of getting half of their faculty from overseas, within the next 5 or 10 years. So they are very globally minded. And you also have something called the Bologna Accord. Which is sort of a common market in education throughout Europe, trying to create degrees that are compatible with each other. Standard three year degree. So it's easier
to move around. It's easier for employers to assess these degrees. And you can think of it as the higher ed version of the Europe which I think is going to create some useful 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...
give to them? So really, it's turned into a bunch of ingredients into some dinner. And it's a lot of ground meat and mincemeat and root vegetables and trying to make classic things, like bolognaises