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Archive for May 14th, 2009

It’s not all butchers who can boast a pseudonym. But then it’s not all butchers who wear bow-ties made from the folded dried skin of a wild boar. In fact there is nothing very normal about Giuseppe Dell’Orso aka ‘Pepe Cotto’ (‘baked pepper’) at all. Our first encounter with him was on an innocent mission [...]

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I’m so proud of our lemon oil that I risk boring people silly going on about how great it is. But it really is better than any other lemon olive oil. Period. (I learned to say that in America.) We make the oil by crushing whole lemons together with the olives in the press. ‘Yeah, [...]

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