Olive, cooking and health

The olive, the centrepiece of Mediterranean cuisine, is becoming increasingly popular in our regions too. Cooking with olive oil means cooking healthily, simply and naturally. With over 60 recipes and lots of southern-inspired images, this book offers you the world of the olive. Olive oil is not just a wonderful ‘food’. Doctors and health-conscious people recommend it for the prevention and treatment of many of the so-called diseases of civilisation. In Provence, there are farmers who only know doctors and dentists from afar. Every morning, they take a spoonful of the purest virgin olive oil on an empty stomach. This book takes you through the whole range of olive cultivation, from harvesting to olive oil production (varieties and qualities), from the use of olive oil as a medicine and beauty product to the use of olives and olive oil in cooking.