silentrage
Delta Girl
Do you cook with olive oil? NPR has a good article and some recipes using olive oil.
Those of you in the DC area can take a class on olive oil at the Smithsonian.
Portion of the article pasted below. Follow link for full article.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6285804
Those of you in the DC area can take a class on olive oil at the Smithsonian.
Portion of the article pasted below. Follow link for full article.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6285804
Like Fine Wines, Fine Olive Oils Boast Subtle Joys
NPR.org, October 18, 2006 ? "What do you smell?" she asked.
I leaned over and sniffed the bottle in her hands.
"Floral," I said. She scrunched her face. Clearly, I had more to learn.
Frances Chastang is the packaged food buyer for the gourmet store, Dean & Deluca, in Washington, D.C. She is the region's resident expert on olive oil and even teaches a class on the subject at the Smithsonian.
When I stopped by recently to ask for a few pointers on picking an extra-virgin olive oil, she graciously offered to give me a crash course and an informal tasting, similar to what one would experience with wines. My "floral" mistake was early in the lesson.
Gourmet olive oil, in fact, is a lot like wine -- and easily as expensive a habit. Sixteen-ounce bottles of the finest oil can run $30 or more, giving new meaning to Homer's description of it as "liquid gold."