A Taste Sweeter Than Meat, More Ancient Than Wine
Olives, pungent, demanding, a taste acquired. Their beauty belying their bitterness, their hardness. Sunshine and human hands transform tartness into fragrant fruit and nectared oil — fare of peasants, armies, kings, and saints. From ancient, twisted roots comes timeless provender, oily, meaty, food until long journeys’ end. Spread out under the vast sky, waiting for the signs That signal harvest, a reaping of first fruits Beaten with sticks or prodded with hooks, the branches weep their bounty, tumbled to earth, […]
Categories: Agriculture, Arab cooking, Cooking, France, French Cooking, Local foods, Olives, Photography, Poetry • Tags: France, French Cooking, Kalamata, Olive, Olive oil, Photography, Tagines, Tapenade
