Verdure: Vegetable Recipes from the Kitchen of the American Academy in Rome, Rome Sustainable Food ProjectUntil 2007, a fellowship at the American Academy in Romearguably, the most prestigious prize awarded to archaeologists, painters, architects, scholars, and artistshad one huge drawback: the food. The dining room, ideally a place for Fellows to gather and for disciplines to cross pollinate, was catered by an outside company whose dreadful food was to be avoided at all costs. But when AAR President Chatfield Taylor asked Alice Waters to help, Waters