I am often asked to present at Culinary Arts and Food classes in high schools. My course title: EVOO & U is interactive, fun and educational. This month’s article in Pressing Times from the Olive Oil Source highlights a recent course that I presented at a high school in Northern California. The interactive part was the “Taste…more »
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Where can I find true Extra Virgin Olive Oil?
With all the current news about finding and buying true extra virgin olive oil, GoEVOO (the first US iPhone/iPad app) helps you find a location to buy EVOO when you’re on the Go. GoEVOO is your guide in finding producers, stores, and purveyors of exquisite extra virgin olive oil in the U.S. With a couple…more »
New Year’s Resolutions: More Olive Oil!
After spending a month in Italy during the olive harvest, where olive oil permeates every aspect of living, I realized that olive oil has role to play – making this next year even better than the last. Read my article in the Olive Oil Source newsletter about ways to “infuse” olive oil into five of…more »
Olive Harvest in Umbria – Stunningly Beautiful
I just returned from one glorious month in Umbria and Tuscany hosting two Olive Harvest Adventure groups, where 10 dynamic women from St. Louis on the first tour and 3 lovely couples on the second tour experienced an authentic Italian week – food, wine, art, music, fun and olive oil! Stay tuned for many stories…more »
Get EVOO on the Go … with GoEVOO!
I am delighted to tell you that the latest release of GoEVOO – the first iPhone/iTouch/iPad app that focuses on finding great Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) who makes it, where to find it and how to use it! …now includes the capability of searching throughout the in the United States for olive oil producers,…more »
Harvest your own Olives in Italy!
Are you looking for an authentic Italian experience? Why not be Italian for a week this Fall! Again this November, I am offering the Olive Harvest Adventure at Villa Gioianna in Umbria. The first Olive Harvest Adventure held in 2010 was a tremendous amount of fun and a wonderful success. So successful…I am offering the…more »
GoEVOO
I am so excited to tell my friends and fans that I recently launched an iPhone/iTouch/iPad app – GoEVOO, the olive oil lover’s guide to Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO). It’s fun, educational and interactive! You can get ideas for using EVOO that go beyond the kitchen. Find olive oil producers, retail and tasting…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 »
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 »
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 bread. Each year…more »
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