In Plato’s (c. 400 B.C.) ideal state men would lived on a healthy diet eating wholemeal barley or wheat bread and galettes. Socrates, however, suggested that this meant the whole population would be living on pig-food. The truth is that in those days, Athenians featured barley cakes…
ANOTHER EXPERIMENT: OLIVES CURED IN HONEY (GO SO WELL WITH SQUID)
“Geoponica” lists various methods for curing olives… My second olive -experiment was olives preserved in honey… in two types of honey, actually. 1 kilo of almost ripe olives was cured in thyme honey and 400 grams were stored in “bitter” monofloral honey of strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo). No aromatic seeds…
THE BEST COMPOUND OF OLIVES?
Geoponica* make it clear that this should be the best compound of olives. So, I followed the instructions and I used 2 kilos of large ripe olives gathered with the hand. I cut them around with a razor blade…
YOU DON’T OWN YOUR MATCHES, YOU DON’T OWN YOUR SALT, YOU DON’T OWN YOUR SUGAR, YOU DON’T OWN YOUR OLIVE OIL
Fire has a major role in the process of human evolution, development of language, socialization, technologies. Civilization would not be possible without fire. And matches made much easier its lighting. Salt shaped civilization from the very beginning. It is…
FOOD FESTIVALS
In the recent years there is an annual festival for almost every food, be it chestnuts, strawberries, cherries, pies, anchovies, snails etc. Villages and towns promote the food festivals as a celebration of their local products and culinary tradition, both worth…