Ode to the Olive
Posted in Italian Foods & Restaurants, Olive Oil on Nov 7th, 2011
Tuscan olive groves everywhere are abuzz with movement as the 2011 harvest kicks off.
Posted in Italian Foods & Restaurants, Olive Oil on Nov 7th, 2011
Tuscan olive groves everywhere are abuzz with movement as the 2011 harvest kicks off.
Posted in Italian Foods & Restaurants, Olive Oil, Travel Notes on Sep 13th, 2009
Italy, especially, remains the biggest producer of high quality olive oil, Tuscany is one of the most important olive oil regions.
Posted in Italian Foods & Restaurants on Feb 13th, 2008
Olive oil has been constantly present as an indispensable element of nutrition and social survival in all Mediterranean cultures for four millennia, and probably longer. The archaeological evidence of prehistoric oil lamps shows that long before proper comestible oil had been perfected by about 2000 Before Our Era, the rude greasy muck extracted by pre-agricultural [...]