Monday October 20, 2008

WOW! I just love this time of year, not only is calcio (Italian football, one of my favorite past times) in full swing but the days are getting cooler - the fish bite a little more (another one of my favorite past times) and . . . . Tuscany presents us with fresh, sometimes piccante (spicy) and sometimes not, olive oil. As I was preparing for our Monday afternoon cooking lesson at our private villa in the colline fiorentine (Florentine hills) I noticed how not only are the leaves changing color but also the olives are beginning to change color. In just little over a month in a half we will be out picking olives on one of our culinary tours and turning it into liquid gold. And that also means that we will start highlighting in our Tuscan cooling lessons all of my favorite recipes which include olive oil.

Andrea