Essence of anchovy in a bottle. If you like anchovies (and who reading my site doesn’t?), you’ll love the elegant, stinky syrup called colatura. It’s made from the runoff from the anchovy salting process, which I guess doesn’t sound particularly elegant, but believe me this stuff is suave. When anchovies are salted for curing, they’re [...]
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Nettuno Colatura
Posted in Restaurant and Product Reviews on December 20, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Natalia Ravidà’s Wonderful New Sicilian Cookbook
Posted in Restaurant and Product Reviews on December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I had the good fortune to be able visit Natalia Ravidà and several generations of her family several years ago when I took a trip to Sicily. I was a huge fan of her family’s estate-bottled extra-virgin olive oil. The exquisite, lush oil had been produced on the family estate, in Menfi, in southwestern Sicily, [...]






