Tag Archives: olives

a taste as old as cold water….

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Food,Photography & France

Lawrence Durrell’s precise metaphor is the clearest description of the taste of olives that I have ever heard or read. In truth, he was speaking of the wrinkly, black, salt cured olives whose flavour is as naked and unashamed as a new … Continue reading →

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the fable of the swallow and olive…

Posted on October 18, 2015 by Food,Photography & France

It is not clear as to whether the epithet declaring that one swallow does not a summer make was written from the view point of an ornithologist, sodden by the traditional August downpour, or from that of Don Juan just … Continue reading →

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