Why not surprise your loved ones this holiday season with some homemade “Turrón”, Spain’s special Christmas almond nougat? If tempering chocolate worries you (although it’s not actually that difficult), you can skip this step, but do use a flexible silicone mould to be able to turn it out more easily.
It is said that the writer Philip Van Doren once imagined the in extremis conversation a desperate, suicidal man might have with his guardian angel. He sent the story to several magazines, but none of them were interested.
Nonetheless, he did not give up on this deeply moving tale, which feels like an unconscious reworking of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. He decided to print a few copies and send them to his friends as a Christmas greeting… a heartfelt Christmas story about a man named George Pratt whose guardian angel grants him one final wish that quite literally changes his life.
The olive tree stands for endurance: not a legend but rather a fundamental truth of this blessed tree. As long as a single olive tree remains alive, there will be hope for World Peace.
Salma Alfarouki is a dear Palestinian friend who arrived in Córdoba almost 40 years ago. A master of beauty and perseverance in her mission to show that a better world is possible, taking the art of living from Al Andalus as her reference and example of peaceful coexistence.
Salma is the quintessence of cooking, as she is of almost everything she sets out to do. Her dishes are exquisite for their organoleptic complexity. She greatly appreciates our EVOOs which, in addition to using in her preparations, she gifts to her most special guests.
Among her recipes, we begin with something simple: her hummus with La Cultivada Quintaesencia.
Noriyoshi is an honest, refined man, with a great deal of sensitivity. I’m talking to you about our importer and distributor in Japan.
He was the one who found us. He fell in love with a photo of La Cultivada and contacted us through a Japanese friend of his — who had a surprising Argentinian accent — who was living in the Netherlands.
On a day like today, four years ago, it was my father’s funeral.
She’s inspired by Mondrian, Frida Kahlo, and Matisse — and she adores La Cultivada EVOO, which has become part of her everyday life. That’s why she also portrays our little cans, giving them new life within the intimate universe of her atelier.
Recipe that could just as easily be prepared in a Parisian apartment, or a little house in Normandy, in Bordeaux or somewhere in Occitania… wherever your imagination takes you.
I’m calling it my cultivated petit-déjeuner.
Both my parents had green eyes, and the first kohl eyeliner I ever used was olive green
It was Pedro Aguilera who filmed our very first “film.”
This was back in the days of our little golden cans, and Pedro came to the Santa Ana Estate one weekend, camera in hand…
At that time, everything was just starting off: La Cultivada was taking its first baby steps.
