Olive Oil (Compacts S.)

Extra virgin is the best olive oil. It's the most delicious, the most versatile and best for your health. Discover its history, how and where it is made, how the trees are grown, how the fruit is harvested and pressed - above all, how to cook with this healthful and delicious oil. Olive Oil contains over 60 irresistible recipes include chapters on Soups and Starters, Sauces, Dips and Dressings, Vegetable Dishes, Pasta Pizza Rice and Beans, Meat, Poultry and Fish - and even Sweet Things. Try recipes such as Couscous with Spicy Fruits, Aubergine Antipasto with Pine Nuts and Herbs, Sweet Potato Frittata, Spanish Roasted Vegetable Salad, Mini Pizzas, lots of pasta recipes, Roasted Provencal Chicken, sweet things like Semolina Citrus Cake and Greek Honey, Walnut and Brandy Cake - plus, of course, lots of recipes for vinaigrette, pesto and mayonnaise.

Clare Ferguson is a food writer with an international reputation and a generous personality - which ensure that she is constantly in demand as a food columnist and radio and television guest. She divides her time between Greece, Australia, New Zealand, the Far East, America, Europe and her base in Britain, where she is well-known as a writer and broadcaster on food and cooking.