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Three of the Best

4 July 2016 by Judy Ridgway

I am really encouraged by the range of aroma, taste and flavour and downright quality of extra virgin olive oil this year.  Over the last few weeks I have been busy tasting a variety of evoos from around Europe and most of them are pretty good.  However, just a few of them really stand out…

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Greek Casseroles

26 June 2016 by Judy Ridgway

olive oil decanter

Starting a new recipe collection: Not everyone realizes quite how versatile extra virgin olive oil can be in the kitchen but the growers certainly do.  Some time ago I put together a collection of recipes from olive oil producers around the world and published it as my e-book Remarkable Recipes.  Great olive oil recipes for…

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Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: casseroles, Greece

Extra virgin olive oil tasting day in London

21 June 2016 by Judy Ridgway

Karen Cryan is a real olive oil enthusiast  “There’s nothing like a good Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) and I tasted sixteen of them at Judy Ridgway’s olive oil tasting class held in London last year”.  Here Karen describes her quest for olive oil knowledge and reviews one of my olive oil classes. “My zeal…

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Sicilian olive oil great choice for pasta

7 June 2016 by Judy Ridgway

Picture of the dish

It’s nearly ten years since I visited the Disisa olive groves in the Monreale región of north western Sicily. I was impressed with the oil from these groves then and so I was very glad to see recently that the Disisa oil is now on sale on thegiftofoil webste. The name Disisa is derived from…

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Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: pasta, Sicily

Dramatic designer bottles catch the Eye

2 June 2016 by Judy Ridgway

This is the latest in eye-catching designs for the Galateo & Friends Signature range of Italian extra virgin olive oils. It is by the internationally acclaimed artist, Lazaro Rosa Violan and joins three other specially commissioned evoo bottle designs for this company. Lazaro opened his design studio in Barcelona in 2003 and since then has…

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Filed Under: New Products, Olive oil Tagged With: biancardo, evoo, Italy

Weddings – The French Way

30 May 2016 by Judy Ridgway

A wedding reception is one of most important events that you may want to cater for yourself.  So after all the hard work of writing A Banquet on a Budget I thought it would be fun to ask my friend food writer and food stylist, Louise Pickford who lives in south west France with her…

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Planning a Wedding Reception? Save Thousands by Self-Catering

9 May 2016 by Judy Ridgway

A Banquet on a Budget front cover

Statistics show that the average wedding reception costs £7,000.  You can save a good deal of this amount by doing the catering yourself.  The money you have saved can then be spent on the honeymoon or put towards a down payment on your new home. However, catering for a large scale celebration can be daunting….

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Adopt an Olive Tree

9 May 2016 by Judy Ridgway

From time to time I get emails from olive growers offering the chance to adopt an olive tree in their grove.  The idea of adopting an olive tree sounds quite intriguing and so I thought I would have a further look at the idea. First of all I wondered why would anyone want to adopt…

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Filed Under: Olive oil Tagged With: Greece, Italy, New Zealand, Olive trees, Portugal, Spain

Swiss Olive Oil

9 May 2016 by Judy Ridgway

Swiss olive oil – what nonsense you say, yet just down to road from my Swiss home there are numerous olive trees growing happily in the Ticino sunshine.  This part of Switzerland, south of the Alps, boasts a Mediterranean style of climate and the weather is such that olive trees can not only survive here…

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The Olive Oil Diet
The best choice for a long and healthy life

My latest book, written with co-author Dr. Simon Poole, has just reached its third reprint. It is available from Waterstone's shops and online

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Around the World with Olive Oil
A look at quality, styles and flavour characteristics
This is a monograph for the International Food and Wine Society. It is available direct from the society

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