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Bubba ordered this wonderful dish our first week in Italy and never saw it again on a menu. He loved the salty olives baked with the succulent chicken, so it was up to me to recreate it for him! You will need a large covered casserole dish. I use chicken breasts, but any bone-in pieces […]

Olives appear in one of the earliest cookbooks ever discovered, a 2000-year-old text by a Roman named Apicius. Olives were so revered in Biblical times that it is said that Moses granted olive growers an exemption from military service. Traditionally, olive oil was the oil burned in Hanukkah lamps. The earliest Olympic flame was a […]

Kalamata olive curing process From Chris Smith, Developed by Basil Papahronis, Pick olives when their color is red to purple and the texture is still firm. Avoid olives on the ground, unless they’ve just been knocked there for picking ease. Minimize bruising by collecting olives in buckets containing water and not by knocking them to […]