By Nancy Harmon Jenkins, WSJ May 15th, 2015. Why olive oil makes better muffins and a few other little-known facts about the good fat that’s even better than you think. Here are three…
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Olives and olive oil
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Cooking with extra-virgin: It’s not always at the stove. In this farmhouse kitchen in deepest Provence, it’s an aioli, garlic mayonnaise, served with poached salt cod and vegetables but equally delicious with simple…
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This is Rosy Grottoli, chef at Masseria Fumarola, which will be our home in October and again in November for AmorOlio in Puglia, six days honoring the cuisine and culture…
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At New York’s Roger Smith Hotel, a mere stone’s throw or pigeon flight from Grand Central Station, for the fourth or fifth (or maybe sixth) year in a row–I can’t find out…
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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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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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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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Chef Michele Forgione, from Montreal’s acclaimed Osteria Venti, is joining us as AmorOlio’s guest chef at our first session, March 25 – 31, at Villa Campestri Olive Oil Resort, in the Mugello…
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We just finished the fourth edition of AmorOlio at Villa Campestri, and I think all my “students” agreed that it was a great experience, learning how to tell good olive oil from…
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I’m on my way back to Tuscany to check out the state of the olive harvest in two places dear to me—my family’s own small groves near Cortona and the much grander…
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I’ve been experimenting with pickles, using olive oil to give finish and smoothness to what are often sharp, acerbic flavors. My grandmother Harmon’s sour cucumber pickle recipe calls for cider vinegar cut…
