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When You Just Can’t Bear to Throw It Away…

Lately life has gotten way-out-of-hand busy. I won’t go into the particulars, but I did slow down long enough to consider a jar in the fridge door this afternoon. It had held green olives preserved in lemon olive oil. They … Continue reading

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How To Find a Good Olive Oil

I view with suspicion the prospect of buying olive oil that I haven’t first been allowed to taste. No matter how many cute hand-lettered signs they post in the olive oil section decorated with hand-drawn olives and leaves and such, … Continue reading

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The Olive Harvest: I’m Mediterranean For a Day

The California Institute of Technology, a.k.a. Caltech, has a lovely canopy of mature olive trees shading a central corridor of its tony, ivied campus. But only in the last few years have they made an effort to collect the olives … Continue reading

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