I’m on my way back back to frigid Maine after ten days in Puglia, the region at the tip of the Italian boot where massive ancient olive trees are kings of the…
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Nancy Harmon Jenkins
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Here’s a great opportunity to celebrate the Mediterranean and the remarkable achievements of Paula Wolfert who is dealing with Alzheimer’s disease in a refreshingly direct and honest way and encouraging others to…
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Why is AmorOlio going to Puglia? There are a number of reasons, not least the fact that this long skinny region in the southeasternmost corner of the Italian peninsula produces, all by…
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My new book got off to a roaring good start this weekend when I made an outstanding duck ragu to go with pappardelle in a hearty, old-fashioned dish from Arezzo, our neighboring…
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After four or five years in Tuscany, we’re heading out to greener pastures—or I should say fresher olive groves—to continue exploring great extra-virgins, great cheeses, great wines, and the fabulous cuisines of…
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Here’s a wonderful short video of our October harvest, taken by Peter Cortez and Gina. What a great celebration, a lot of hard work, a lot of fun, and some spectacular olive…
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AmorOlio, the six-day olive oil seminar that I’ve been developing and growing over the last couple of years, just concluded its last session for 2013 and it was a resounding success. Like…
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I spent the best part of last week on the island of Stromboli—I’m leaving tonight on the overnight ferry to Naples—visiting my friend Beatrice Ughi, the director-in-chief of that wonderful website
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China now has more people with diabetes or pre-diabetes than the entire population of the United States. The alarming news was published in the Wall Street Journal’s blog, China Realtime Report, quoting…
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Summer is drawing all too rapidly to a close. Here on the coast of Maine, despite the dog days of August, you can already feel autumn in the air. Our notoriously chill…
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I love cheese, I really do. I would take a supper of cheese, good grainy bread, and a crisp green salad over almost anything else–over foie gras, or white truffles, over a…
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Fiddleheads, so called because the tightly furled shoots of the oyster fern look like the gracefully curved scroll at the end of a fiddle, are at the tail end of the season…