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Olive Oil - The history, tradition and uses of olive oil

A little but precious book with an elegant binding and an unusual and refined size. A book easy to read but extremely precise on the historical and scientific point of view. The history, the characteristics, the curiosities about the olive oil and the olite tree are the leitmotif of this page. Large space is reserved to the recipes and to practical suggests.

The olive oil has a 6000-Year-Old history that this book pleasenlty tells, from the origins, through the Roman Age, the monasteries of the Middle Age, until nowadays. A precious foodstuff that has always represented a fundamental element of the food culture with unuspected healing virtues.

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Roberto Bosi
Oil - Olive Oil
Nardini Editore - Florence
Format 9.5 x 24.5 cm
Handbound book with cloth-spine
115 pages
40 images
Price € 10.00

Index:
The History of the Olive Tree
- A 6000-Year-Old history
- An Oil-Producing farm in the Roman Republican Era
- The Transportation od Oil in Antiquity
- The Different Olive Cultivars and their Therapeutic Qualities
- The Survival of Olive Farming in Montasteries
A precious foodstuff
- The Nutritional Vale of Olive Oil
- Olive Oil: a Precious Foodstuff
- Olive Oil: Production in Itay
- It is possible to choose an Oil as you can a Wine?
- Oil in Health and Bauty Care
Italians Oils
- Sardinian Oil
- Calabrian Oil
- Puglian Oil
- Lazio Oil
- Umbrian Oil
- Tuscan Oil
- Ligurian Oil
- Oil from Lake Garda - Oil from Lake Como
- The Different Qualities of Oil
Traditional recipes






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