Ah Bruschetta!

How can anything be “extra virgin”?  An olive either has or has not been pressed. In fact, nobody in Tuscany talks about “virgin” olive oil. The olives get milled, the oil comes out, the pith gets discarded or used, these days, as fuel in a furnace. The salient point, rather, is the oil’s age, and […]

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