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From the Grove:
Olive Oil Stories and Tips


Why the Olive Oil in Your Kitchen Might Be the Most Powerful Thing on Your Shelf: extra virgin olive oil quality indicators
Nelson's preferred breakfast since being a kid: bread, olive oil and very ripe tomatoes Extra Virgin Olive Oil quality indicators We didn't fall in love with olive oil because of the science. We fell in love with the way most people do, around a table, with good food and good company. But the more we learned about what was actually inside a truly exceptional extra virgin olive oil, the more we understood why our grandparents' generation poured it on everything and lived so we

Nelson Salvatorelli
Jun 212 min read
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The Black Tin Olive Oil and Lemon Morning Ritual: How We Start Our Day
Our black edition energised bottle to enhance the health benefits of our olive oil and lemon morning ritual We used to start our mornings with apple cider vinegar. You may have done the same. It works, in its way, but it was harsh on Karla's stomach and after a while, honestly, it stopped feeling like something we looked forward to. We wanted something gentler. Something we actually enjoyed. That is how the morning olive oil and lemon ritual started for us. We had already fal

Karla Salvatorelli
Jun 163 min read
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Our Olive Grove: A Cortona Story
Nelson at our Cortona olive grove looking in the distance Our Cortona olive grove Cortona, an ancient Etruscan hill town rising above the Val di Chiana valley in the heart of Tuscany, has been drawing people in for centuries: artists, writers, travelers, and those simply searching for something real. Its cobble stone streets, its light, its views stretching out toward Lake Trasimeno. It is the kind of place that quietly insists you slow down. Frances Mayes wrote about it in i

Nelson Salvatorelli
Jun 115 min read
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