OLIVE HEAVEN

You've seen tee-shirts proclaiming, "My parents went on vacation and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!";  I have been the recipient of tee-shirts from people who had found the "perfect" shirt for me and it is usually of a political nature.

However, 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!