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Posts tagged “olive”

Recipe: Duck with Black Olives and Black Olive Risotto
Cookbook Recipes

We like to have a few recipes tucked away for special occasions. Meals that are foolproof, crowd-pleasing, and not too difficult — but still a little more demanding (and impressive) than our usu...

Seasonal Spotlight: Olives

This is the time of the year when fresh olives are showing up at the local farmer's markets in California and any other olive-producing states. I remember my first Fall in California; I saw fresh oli...

Harvest Time: Olives in Israel, Palestine, and California

Olives! Olives, grown for food and oil, are one of the most ancient crops in human history. The groves of olives in some of these photos are hundreds of years old, clinging to hot, dusty hillsides in ...

Recipe: Summer Main Course Salad with Beans and Basil

It might seem strange to start a salad recipe by talking about a sausage. But when a friend gave us some beautiful homemade links, we immediately thought of the classic Tuscan sausage and cannellini b...

The Celluloid Pantry: Dirty Martinis and Sabrina (1954)

Was director Billy Wilder a kitchen renegade? Maybe. Let's take a look at the evidence so far: We've already witnessed Sugar Kane's (Marilyn Monroe) cocktail improvisation in Wilder's 1959 classic, S...