Tag: olive oil
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Olive Oil Tasting: Enchanting Sicily, Day 3
The best olives are ready to be picked in October each year. The best purveyors of olive oil harvest the fruit by hand and cold press it within two hours. Sicily’s soil and pervasive sunlight make for some of the world’s most delectable olive oil. On Day 3 of this September’s Enchanting Sicily tour, we’ll…
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Olive Sicily
I’ve been so engrossed most of the day programming our Enchanting Sicily tour, which I’ll be leading September 24 to October 8, I almost forgot to post something for you! OK, so, I’ve been inspired by one of the many fantastic activities in which we’ll be taking part during the trip: a tour of this…
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Sicily’s Liquid Gold
Olive trees and olive oil where brought to Sicily by the Greeks and the Phoenicians in the centuries before the Common Era. Today, the island region is one of Italy’s most prolific producers of this liquid gold that has many health benefits and uses–from cooking to soap to moisturizer. Feudotto, imported in the US by…
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Ancient Greek-era Lekythos in Sicily
This ancient Sicilian-Greek-era lekythos caught my eye because of the drummer and flute player depicted in its design. A lekythos is a specific shape of Greek pottery–narrow with one handle–that was used for storing olive oil c. 500 BC. They commonly showed men practicing rituals or daily tasks because it was a vessel used primarily…