We prune our olive trees in the Nudo grove when the winter rains stop, the days start to get longer and just before the sap rises. Between 5 and 10 of us prune for a week or so, if the weather holds that long. If bad weather means that progress is slow we don’t have [...]
Archive for May 1st, 2009
Penne with mascarpone, black olives and orange oil
Posted in Jason's Recipes, tagged Nudo, olive oil, olives, oranges, penne, recipes on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Learning the language
Posted in Resources, tagged cathy rogers, emigration, learning Italian, learning new languages, Nudo, olive oil on May 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It’s funny how many people live in places where they don’t speak the native language. And how many of these people wonder why they have trouble fitting in. Of course fitting in is a lot more complicated than learning a language, but it’s a pretty good start. I suppose there are some types of emigration [...]
Bruschetta
Posted in Jason's Recipes, tagged adopt an olive tree, bruschetta, Nudo, olive oil, recipes on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bruschetta (pronounced broo-sket-ta) I am rubbish at languages. In English classes at school I was never taught the difference between nouns, verbs and all that (or maybe I was smoking a menthol cigarette behind the sports hall when that was being dished out). So I had to learn it all as an adult when I [...]
