Extra Virgin: Cooking With Olive Oil

Extra virgin is the best olive oil - the cream of the crop. It's the most delicious, the most versatile, and the right oil to choose for your health. In Extra Virgin Clare Ferguson takes you on a culinary journey using this most inpsiring ingredient - to discover its history, how it is made, how the trees are grown, how the fruit is harvested and pressed. There are double-page feature spreads on the great olive-oil-producing regions of the world from Northern and Southern Italy, Greece, and Spain to the newer estates in California, Australia, and New Zealand. For each region Clare helps you to understand the unique flavor and character of its oil. Above all, Extra Virgin shows you how to cook with this healthful and delicious oil. There are over 60 simple-to-prepare recipes that include Spicy Chile Clam Chowder, Provencal Roast Chicken, Catalan Spinach with Pine Nuts, and sweet treats such as Greek Honey Cake and Orange Polenta Cake, all photographed by Peter Cassidy.

Clare Ferguson is a food writer with an international reputation and generous personality, always in demand as a food columnist and radio and television guest. She was food consultant and stylist for the BBC TV series Madhur Jaffrey's Far Eastern Cookery and Food Editor of Elle and She magazines. Clare divides her time between Greece, Australia, New Zealand, the Far East, America and her base in Britain, where she is well known as a writer and broadcaster on food and cooking.