I make olive oil. I know every single step of the process inside out, from sapling to mature tree, from the plucking of the fruit to the winding of the press. I also know how much all this labour of love costs. That’s part of my job too – watching every penny and dime we [...]
Archive for the ‘Stories from the Olive Grove’ Category
100% Extra Virgin?
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged 100%, cheap, China, cost, expensive, extra virgin, Jason Gibb, New York Times, Nudo, olive, olive oil, Olive Oil Times, olive tree, quality, Telegraph, UK, USA on January 27, 2012 | 4 Comments »
The Italian economy
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged 2012, Berlusconi, business, cathy rogers, confesercenti, Dolce vita, economy, Italy, Mafia, new, olive oil, small, year on January 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
According to a recent report by Confesercenti (a federation of small businesses in Italy) there is one part of the Italian economy that’s booming despite the grim economic times: the Mafia. With £100bn annual profits (to put it another way, 7% of GDP) the Mafia seem to be the only business currently skating on liquidity. [...]
Recycle in the original meaning of the word
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged adopt an olive tree, desk, DIY, holder, Jason Gibb, make yourself, Nudo, olive oil, pen, plant, pot, recycle, tidy, tins on January 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
In the olden days, recycling meant re-using – like actual reusing – by us. Shoeboxes would become document storage systems, shoelaces would have a second life in beaded necklaces and so on. Today it’s much more indirect, involving special bags and weekly schedules and, on a more personal level, no more than a vague pride [...]
How to make naturally flavored lemon olive oil
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged adopt an olive tree, Corradini, flavored, Italy, lemon, Macina, naturally, Nudo, olive oil, olive press, olive trees, tour on December 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
How to make naturally flavored lemon olive oil. See the Nudo photo album here. x
Bored of kids? Adopt an olive tree.
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged adopt, adopt an olive tree, baby, Bored, dog, funny, kids, lol, Nudo, olive oil, spoof on December 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The comfort of strangers
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged adopt an olive tree, Arno Maasdorp, Brixton, cathy rogers, dinner, Nudo, olive oil, pop-up, restaurants, Saltoun, supper club on December 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’d never heard of ‘supper clubs’. I’d heard of guerrilla dining, and, of course, pop-up restaurants. (In just how many new ways can eating be spun?) I was sceptical. Were ‘supper clubs’ simply another marketing gimmmick or were they actually a new thing? And more importantly, were they a new thing that was any good? [...]
Nudo and the olive oil panettone
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged adopt an olive tree, butter, cathy rogers, Christmas, holidays, italian, Nudo, olive oil, panettone on December 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
There are three things guaranteed to put me in the Christmas mood. The first is the smell of pine trees. The second is the first December airing of Jason’s copy of Phil Spector’s ‘Sounds of Christmas’ CD. And the third is the sight of someone carrying a preposterously prettily-packaged panettone. I absolutely love panettone and [...]
Luisa: a woman of great stock
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged cathy rogers, Ferragosto, Italy, loro piceno, Luisa, Nudo, olive oil, salt, spice, stock, vegetable on November 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Luisa is a lady who knows how to cook. She knows how to cook so well that she doesn’t even think she is a good cook – it is just a thing she does. Telling her she is a good cook is like telling someone else they are good at breathing – wow, man, you [...]
How to taste olive oil like a pro
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged artichoke, Barbara Alfei, cathy rogers, correct, flavors, grass, IOCC, Italy, olive oil, polyphenols, right, tasting, way on November 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
We recently, along with some journalists from Canada, the US and the UK, had an olive oil tasting lesson from the best in the business: member of the elite IOCC and all round wonderful human being Barbara Alfei. We thought you might enjoy some of her tasting titbits. Take the olive oil in question and [...]
Harvest time is here again…
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged adopt an olive tree, harvest, Italy, Mother Nature, Nudo, olive oil, olives, rain, September on October 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Growing your own basil plant at home gives you a tiny taster of the preoccupations of running a whole olive grove. Take watering: too little and the poor fella will wilt, too much and you could be held responsible for his drowning. In the olive grove, the plus – and simultaneously the minus – is [...]
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