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Books : Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit
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Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit by: Mort Rosenblum List Price: £7.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £5.99 You Save: £2.00 (25%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 641 EAN: 9781899791385 ISBN: 1899791388 Label: Absolute Press Manufacturer: Absolute Press Number Of Pages: 316 Publication Date: 2000-06 Publisher: Absolute Press Studio: Absolute Press Sales Rank: 15106 Related Items:
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 Rating: - The True Olive RouteWonderfully 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. Rating: - Olives: a love storyRosenblum, 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... |
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