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Thursday, August 16, 2012

KALAMATA


You've seen tee-shirts proclaiming, "My parents went on vacation and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!".

I'm lucky because a friend of mine visited Greece and other Mediterranean countries and she brought back a box of a large variety of olives for me. KALAMATA, AMPHISSA, ROYAL, ATALANTA, CRETAN, HALKIDIKI, and AGRINION; the only one I'd heard of was Kalamata!

I was in OLIVE HEAVEN!

I asked, "When are you going to France?" She asked, "Why, what kind of olives do they have there?"

She knows me TOO well!

I answered, "NICOISE, PROVENCAL, NYONS, PICHOLINE, s'il vous plait!

CLICK HERE to read an article in Dummies.com entitled The Different Types of Olives.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Is this the friend with the FARMSA? ML