Olive Oil in Umbria: Past, Present, Future | Brigolante Guest ...

Museum of Olive Oil Culture in Trevi. Umbria (Copyright Marzia Keller)Remember when you’d just have a cup of coffee? You didn’t bother yourself with its country of origin and how many times it had been roasted. You just sloshed it boiling hot from the Mr. Coffee and sucked it down along with all the chemicals leaching out of the styrofoam cup it was in.Remember when you’d just eat a tomato? You didn’t ask yourself about its carbon footprint or whether it was heirloom or hothouse. You just sliced it onto your iceberg lettuce, drowned the whole cabash in Thousand Island, and got on with it.Remember when you’d just drink some wine? You didn’t hold forth on varietals and terroirs and Super-thises and thats. You …


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