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Food
The Olive 17 June 2009
Carol Drinkwater holding an olive branch - image copyright Michael Trevillion
The tree, the fruit, the oil.

You can find olive trees throughout the Mediterranean – thousands of different varieties. Often hundreds of years old, they are cultivated to produce table olives or oils. The former actress, Carol Drinkwater, owns an olive farm in the sun baked hills of Provence and deli owner and half Sicilian, George Hornby, whose family has owned an olive grove in Sicily for six hundred years, join Jenni to about their passion for the olives, their oil and the trees.


The Olive Tree by Carol Drinkwater is published by Phoenix  ISBN 978-0-7538-2612-6
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