Healthy Italian food rarely comes up around a dinner table in Le Marche. Nobody here treats it as a category. In November, once the olive harvest ends, the talk in our kitchen turns simple: the new oil has arrived. Olio nuovo (freshly pressed, unfiltered olive oil) is bitter and sharp. It can catch in the…
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