The fact that the word truffle is derived from the Latin for ‘swelling’ or ‘lump’ hasn’t put off the gastronomes. This rare tuber is more sought after than ever – and now also by us! For some time now we’ve been hatching a plan to add white truffle olive oil to our range -so we’ve [...]
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The truffle trials
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged black, euro, hunt, hunter, Italy, Jason Gibb, le Marche, olive oil, press, tartufi, truffles, white on May 21, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Say it with sayings
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged cathy rogers, Easter, English, give an inch, idiom, italian, language, priest, sayings, translation on April 23, 2012 | 3 Comments »
‘Nebbia di Marzo mal non fa, ma in Aprile pane e vino a metà.’ or ‘A foggy March isn’t really anything to worry about, but if you’ve still got fog lurking around in April you better start preparing for a pretty shoddy harvest of wheat for your bread and grapes for your wine; you could even [...]
5 Facts about extra virgin olive oil
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged black, difference, extra virgin, facts, five, good olive oil, green, Jason Gibb, list, Nudo, olive oil, olives, truth on March 16, 2012 | 4 Comments »
I love reading other people’s recipes – I’ll browse for hours through books on Italian antipasti and spend evenings on blogs about cupcakes – and I don’t even bake! Although I love it, there is one thing guaranteed to get my goat: the sometimes wild inaccuracies I read about olive oil – and from people [...]
The best Italian organic olive oil soap (thus far)
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged best, cathy rogers, honey, italian, Italy, lavender, Mediterranean, olive, olive oil, organic, philosophy, soap on March 12, 2012 | 4 Comments »
One of Nudo’s first forays into non-olive oil production was with soap. We had been given some slightly out of date, lower grade olive oil which we thought could have a lovely second life in our bathroom. Little did we know what pleasures await the better the quality of the olive oil in your soap. [...]
Olive oil: the only oil that is extracted from a fruit
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove on March 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Several years ago when Cathy and I decided to ‘return to the land’ so to speak, it was a toss up between becoming wine makers or olive oil producers. After a bit of research wine seemed complicated – lots of ageing, blending and general tinkering. The tipsiness was appealing, but there were two key facts [...]
Colomba Easter cake
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged amaretto, cake, cathy rogers, colomba, Easter, italian, pasqua, Pieces, Reese's, tradition on March 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I love Easter eggs. Actually, to be specific, I love the most garishly packaged, Reese’s Pieces-filled tooth-tingling Easter eggs that are marketed at 5 year olds. But there is a problem: when you are in your forties, no-one gives you those. For some inexplicable reason they give you a demure, ‘tasteful’ egg made of posh [...]
Grow your own olive tree
Posted in Stories from the Olive Grove, tagged cathy rogers, grove, grow, grow your own, home, Italy, Nudo, olive oil, olive tree, own, tin, tree on February 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I’ve always loved the idea of living near water – the sea, a river, a lake, a stream, it doesn’t really matter – there is just something so soothing and reflective about a trickle or a gloop or a slosh. It’s one of those things hard to replicate in a flat in the city, short [...]
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 | 5 Comments »
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 [...]
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 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
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