Category Archives: Sweets and desserts

Chocolate & olive oil on a winter Sunday

February 14, 2011
Whose woods these are I think I know. . . .Last week’s olive oil lecture at Boston University (“everything you need to know about choosing and using extra-virgin”) was a sell-out and a gratifying success, but I especially enjoyed working with the dozen students of the Gastronomy Program in their wonderful big teaching kitchen. Together we pulled together a bunch of dishes to show off Read More
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Bitter orange marmalade

February 6, 2011
Bitter orange marmaladeJust spent two days making orange marmalade with son Nico and his wife. Elegant citrus aromas filled the house as we simmered, stirred, tested and retested, and the result: five jars of a clear brilliant yellow-orange marmalade made with white sugar, then eight jars of an astonishingly tasty evolution of a River Cottage recipe that simmers for Read More
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Citrus & Olive Oil: A Zing for Cabin Fever

January 29, 2011
Citrus & Olive Oil: A Zing for Cabin FeverSymptoms of cabin fever according to Wikipedia (who else would you trust?): restlessness, irritability, irrational frustration, distrust, and an urge to go outside even in the rain, snow, or dark. It is particularly acute (this part is not according to Wikipedia) in Maine in the depths of winter when the woodpile is starting to look skimpy, Read More
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Wassailing apples

January 6, 2011
Wassailing applesLast night was Twelfth Night, the night of the twelfth—and last–day of Christmas when by long-standing British tradition you’re supposed to eat up the last of the Christmas pudding, which I did, and go out in the dark to wassail the apple orchards, which I also did, with a friend who has a lot of Read More
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An Exaltation of Apples

October 18, 2010
An Exaltation of ApplesAdapted from Article published in Zester Daily http://www.zesterdaily.com/baking/653-apple-tarte-tatin Tarte Tatin was invented, so we are told, late in the 19th century by one of the two Tatin sisters, les demoiselles Tatin, who kept a restaurant, the Hotel-Terminus Tatin, in the Loire valley town of Lamotte-Beuvron. Yeah, right, I used to say, and Marco Polo brought Read More
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  • Tuscany Spring 2013 AmorOlio

    March 25 – 31 and April 22 – 28, 2013, at Villa Campestri, the world’s only olive oil resort located in the hills above Tuscany’s Mugello valley just half an hour north of Florence. READ HERE

  • TUSCANY AUTUMN 2013: AMOROLIO

    OCTOBER 21 – 27 Plans are shaping up for our autumn AmorOlio program, October 21 to 27, 2013, at Villa Campestri (“the world’s only olive oil resort”), in the hills above Tuscany’s Mugello valley just half an hour north of Florence. READ HERE

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