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Isbn 13: 9798185019313

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From the Olive Grove to Your Kitchen, Explained Simply and Completely.

There is an old olive tree on a hillside in Crete that has been producing fruit for more than three thousand years. It is gnarled, split, leaning at an improbable angle, and entirely unimpressed by the modern world around it. Every autumn, a family climbs that hill with nets and rakes and careful hands, and harvests what it gives them. Pressed within hours, the oil that results is one of the finest substances a human being can put in their mouth bright, complex, alive with flavor compounds and health promoting polyphenols that no factory process can replicate or synthesize.
That oil, and millions of bottles like it produced every year across the Mediterranean basin and beyond, deserves better than what most of us give it: a glance at a supermarket shelf, a hand reaching for the cheaper bottle, and a year of sitting next to the stove in a clear glass bottle where light and heat methodically destroy everything that makes it worth buying in the first place.
This book exists because olive oil deserves to be understood. Not in the way that wine connoisseurship can tip into pretension, and not in the breathless health marketing tone that has attached itself to the subject in recent years. Just understood. Clearly, completely, and with the kind of honest engagement that any extraordinary thing deserves when you bring it into your home.

Número de páginas :97
Isbn 13 :9798185019313
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