Using olive oil for baking is a familiar feature of Mediterranean cooking. While it may sound a bit odd, baking with olive oil has actually been done for centuries. Olive oil gives cakes and cookies a light texture and can be used with confidence in lieu of butter or other oils. It best to use…more »
Harvest Your Own Olives!
If you’re a lover of olive oil, you won’t want to miss our Olive Harvest Tour in Italy this fall! Not only will you get to pick olives, but you’ll watch as they’re pressed into liquid gold, and then taste the exquisite olio nuovo (new oil) as it is drizzled on fresh…more »
Olive Oil Wrestling?
Yes, it’s #95 in my book The Passionate Olive – 101 Things to do with Olive Oil. On a recent episode of The Bachelorette in which the group traveled to Turkey, the bachelors were drizzled with olive oil and wrestled to the ground. They participated in this traditional Turkish sport with the winner awarded more…more »
My Passion for Olive Oil
I am often asked how I became interested in olive oil. My answers were captured at one of my book signings: An Evening with Carol Firenze. But I must admit, it was definitely love at first bite, when I tasted my first olive as a child – the flavor so delicious, the texture so unique…more »
The Gift of Olive Oil
Want a fabulous gift idea? How about a bottle of your favorite extra virgin olive oil? Dubbed “liquid gold” by Homer, olive oil has been noted for centuries as the gift of elegance. Even Ulysses gave small phials of olive oil as the perfect hostess gift. For more than 4,000 years, the olive tree has…more »
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