The olive oil of Itri is better than that of Sonnino? What is the difference between the olive of Itri and olive of Gaeta? The good oil is sweet or bitter?
To these and many other questions will be answered in the new book by Paul Mastrantoni published by the Mannocchio Editions.
The book traces the history of olive and olive oil in the province, reviewing the varieties of olives and visiting to the oil mills.
There is no comparison between the oil of the past and what comes now from the mills. “Olio e olive delle Terre pontine” also wants to be this: a point of reference to understand how to recognize a quality product.
The book comes out in a very lucky period for the pontine oil . Less than a year has been finally approved the DOP certification “Colline Pontine” and local producers get better placings in national and international competitions.
News of these days that an oil of Sonnino has won a first place in “Hercules Olivari”, the most important national competition in the industry.
Fifteen years ago companies in the province and their product were total strangers, have now gained the limelight. A chapter of the book is also dedicated to the olive brine.
The “Itrana” is a dual purpose variety, that gives oil and is suitable also at table.
Already famous in the Middle Ages were Gaeta Olives but locally the fruits were also prepared in a thousand other ways.
Even those who want to extricate this parallel world oil find lots of information in the book of Mastrantoni. The book can be purchased on the publisher site: www.mannoccio.it
To these and many other questions will be answered in the new book by Paul Mastrantoni published by the Mannocchio Editions.
The book traces the history of olive and olive oil in the province, reviewing the varieties of olives and visiting to the oil mills.
There is no comparison between the oil of the past and what comes now from the mills. “Olio e olive delle Terre pontine” also wants to be this: a point of reference to understand how to recognize a quality product.
The book comes out in a very lucky period for the pontine oil . Less than a year has been finally approved the DOP certification “Colline Pontine” and local producers get better placings in national and international competitions.
News of these days that an oil of Sonnino has won a first place in “Hercules Olivari”, the most important national competition in the industry.
Fifteen years ago companies in the province and their product were total strangers, have now gained the limelight. A chapter of the book is also dedicated to the olive brine.
The “Itrana” is a dual purpose variety, that gives oil and is suitable also at table.
Already famous in the Middle Ages were Gaeta Olives but locally the fruits were also prepared in a thousand other ways.
Even those who want to extricate this parallel world oil find lots of information in the book of Mastrantoni. The book can be purchased on the publisher site: www.mannoccio.it
