Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1149597 in Books
• Published on: 1996-01-01
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 250 pages

Review
Mort Rosenblum brings poetry, history, humor, and passion to the noble olive. -Martha Stewart
Filled with history, lore, scandal, gossip, politics, recipes, health tips and even Mafia intrigue, Olives is as perceptive as it is passionate. -Patricia Wells, author of" Bistro Cooking"
A dazzling book of olive mania. -Nancy McKeon, "The Washington Post Book World"
Delicious . . . A blend of first-rate travel writing and first-rate food writing. -Michael Pakenham, "The Baltimore Sun"

Synopsis
Looks at the history of the olive, describes different varieties grown around the world, and discusses the olive industry.

Customer Reviews

The True Olive Route
Wonderfully crafted work tracing the olive tree, it's fruit and oil throughout the Med. Having a quirky, wry way with words, the author offers many laugh out loud moments; once describing a poorly pruned tree in Palestine as being capable of hiding "a peacock in a Day-Glo T-shirt" in it's unruly branches. His journeys are further brought to life with recipes and glorious pencil drawings of the fabled fruit. Well researched it exposes a few gaps and glaring mistakes in more recent works, proving that the olive path is easily followed, not so easily portrayed.

Olives: a love story
Rosenblum, an american journalist, bought a derilect farm in Provence and then, finding it included a hundred or so olive trees, fell in love with the olive. This story has been done before, but he researched olive growing and oil making through the mediterannean and elsewhere, culminating in designer oils in California...