Aryana Libris

Author : Mueller Tom
Title : Extra Virginity The sublime and scandalous world of olive oil
Year : 2011

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When a native of the Mediterranean had to leave the shores of the sea, he was uneasy and homesick; like the soldiers of Alexander the Great when he left Syria and advanced towards the Euphrates; or the sixteenth-century Spaniards in the Low Countries, miserable among the ‘fogs of the North’. For Alonzo Vázquez and the Spaniards of his time (and probably of all time) Flanders was ‘the land where there grows neither thyme, nor lavender, figs, olives, melons, or almonds; where dishes are prepared, strange to relate, with butter from cows instead of oil.’ Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. ...