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Title: Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit by Mort Rosenblum ISBN: 0865475261 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86
Rating: 5
Summary: If you love olives, buy this book
Comment: As an olive lover, I bought this book as soon as I saw it. Rosenblum discusses the sociological, historical, literary, religious, political, medicinal, geographic, gastronomic, gustatory, criminal, commercial, cultural, and horticultural world of olives, and the passionate and quirky people who love them. Throughout the book, the author describes his own journey from olive indifference to olive lover and grower.
If you like travel writing, this book will especially appeal to you as you follow Rosenblum around the world in his quest for knowledge about, as he describes it in the book's title, this "Noble Fruit." Even if you are not fanatical about olives and olive oil--which I am--it is still a fun, fascinating read.
If I could give this book more stars, I would.
Rating: 5
Summary: Well done
Comment: This book presents a very comprehensive overview of olives, olive oil, and olive producers in a style that is part travelogue, part anthropology, and part history (without footnotes). Rosenblum takes us on a tour of the Mediterranean, from France, to Palestine, Greece to Tunisia, and Spain to Bosnia. In each locale, he interviews local olive growers on the way they tend their trees, pick their fruit, and press their oil, and of course, he never refuses a sample. I found the first chapter, which started with some literary-historical introductions a little shaky, but after that I couldn't put the book down. Rosenblum's explanations as to why different olive oils have varying qualities were very clear. They will come in handy next time I'm faced with selecting a brand of olive oil at the market. Although Rosenblum mentions the curing of olives in each country, most of the text focuses on the production of oil. I would have been interested in reading more about table olives, but perhaps that's because I'm living in Dubai, where every supermarket deli counter has a minimum of 20 different kinds of olives to choose from. Even though this book is not a cookbook, it does contain a handful of recipes.
Rating: 5
Summary: Reads like fiction--
Comment: This is a beautiful book. If you enjoy olives, you'll find yourself caught up in Mort Rosenblum's warm, engaging writing style. I've given several friends this book along with jars of olives and olive oil as a gift. Each time, the recipient has said they were surprised to receive a book about olives, but once they started reading it they couldn't put it down. This is definitely one of those wonderful word of mouth books that good cooks want to share with eachother.
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Title: Olive Oil - From Tree to Table: From Tree to Table by Peggy Knickerbocker, Laurie Smith, Maggie Blyth Klein ISBN: 0811813509 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Essential Olive Oil Companion by Anne Dolamore, Madeleine David ISBN: 1566563348 Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Olive in California: History of an Immigrant Tree by Judith M., Md. Taylor, Kevin Starr ISBN: 1580081312 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: Olive Production Manual (#3353) by Louise Ferguson, George C. Martin, G. Steven Sibbett ISBN: 1879906155 Publisher: UC Regents Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: Pruning and Training Systems for Modern Olive Growing by Claudio Cantini, Riccardo Gucci ISBN: 0643064435 Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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