The Olive Harvest Cookbook: Olive Oil Lore and Recipes from McEvoy Ranch

by Jacqueline Mallorca

This luscious cookbook -- full of glorious recipes for making the most of extra-virgin olive oil -- is a feast for both the eyes and the palate. In 1991 Nan McEvoy planted 1,000 olive tree seedlings... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811841626
• ISBN13: 9780811841627
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.9" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

California Dream Come True

If you love the taste of wonderful food and desire the health benefits of true organic olive oil, this book is for you. If you also appreciate beauty, you will relish the sensuous full-color photographs that testify to the remakable people who are making this California dream come true. Owning this book lets you share in this rich adventure. Mary Lou Kazmierski, Harbor Springs, MI

An appetizing cookbook to simply page through

Written by the executive chef of McEvoy Ranch, a place renowned for its organic extra virgin olive oil, The Olive Harvest is a sumptuous cookbook of recipes that showcase the flavors and delights that can be created with olive oil, or that use olive oil as a garnish. Full color photographs by Maren Caruso and explicit step-by-step instructions walk the amateur to professional chef through the steps of creating such delicacies as Lemon-Tarragon Gazpacho; Warm White Bean Salad; Salt Cod with Potatoes, Leeks, and Saffron; Walnut-Olive Oil Cake, and much more. An appetizing cookbook to simply page through, offering succulent and memorable dishes.