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In 1986, Mort Rosenblum bought a small overgrown farm in Provence. With it, he discovered, were 150 neglected olive trees that were old when the Sun King ruled France. His neighbors, characters from Pagnol with skills dating back to Pliny, helped him bring his grove back to life. Rosenblum became obsessed with olives: the Olea europaea’s role in history and civilization; their cultivation and commerce; their place in the kitchen, in the library, and in the heart. Among olive growers and oil makers, he found a whole new world of humor and wisdom. From his base in Provence, Rosenblum journeyed to the outposts of olivedom: from Andalusia to the Holy Land; up Moroccan mountains and across Greek islands; from Tuscan palazzos to California wine country and forgotten groves in the Mexican desert; to the disputed borders of Bosnia.
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