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kudos for The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook

eat your vegetables!I was thrilled to receive this important recognition from Cooking Light magazine: http://www.cookinglight.com/cooking-101/resources/best-healthy-cookbooks-00412000073863/page6.html That puts The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook in number three position among the best healthy cookbooks of the last 25 years. Thanks to all of you who have bought it, cooked from it, talked about it, and eaten the great, flavorful, healthy Read More
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Eternal question: reliable olive oil???

Eternal question: reliable olive oil???don’t expect to walk into your local supermarket at any time and find a bottle of one of these oilsRead More
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Artichokes/Carciofi

Moretti in the Camucia marketso tender they can be sliced very thin and served in a salad with a healthy dollop of new Tuscan oilRead More
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Tortilla espanola for the olive pickers

Tortilla espanola in the black iron skilletSpanish classic, tortilla española--a big flat omelet rich with potatoes and onions stewed in olive oil (extra-virgin, need I add?) and cooked in the old black-iron skilletRead More
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Stop Me If I’ve Told You This Already

Stop Me If I’ve Told You This AlreadyFor once, our high mountain climate has acted as a blessing and we have more and better olives than friends down on the plain. Read More
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  • SPEAKING TUSCAN IN THE KITCHEN/ LA CUCINA PARLA TOSCANO

    May 20 - 226, 2012, Villa Campestri, Tuscany A Tuscan cooking course with Nancy Harmon Jenkins for details click HERE

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