Our Story
HELP!
An exclamation used when you've accidentally started a farm shop, written a book, collected too many tins of olive oil, and decided that all of this should somehow become a website.
Also on another ♯ note, see:
The Beatles, YouTube is a great place for starters. Great Song.
And a rather familiar holiday feeling. See also:
Chevy Chase. As above so below - many a trailer is readily available.
A CUNNING PLAN
Balzac once wrote about ambition; we just wanted an excuse to buy more Pecorino.
BJØRKE ØSTRE
An 18th-century farm, currently housing an unreasonable amount of olive oil.
THE BOOK
Technically not finished. On paper, getting there. Apparently this is not stopping us from building a website about it.
FARM SHOP
A small shop containing food, art, stories and probably more cheese stories than stringly necessary.
Currently operating on high hopes, strong coffee, and an unreasonable inventory of gold-medal olive oil (distinguished nose approved).
MANGALITZA
A Hungarian pig with excellent taste. Or perhaps excellent taste because it is a Hungarian pig.
OLIVE OIL
A perfectly reasonable thing to collect. Especially when travelling in Puglia. The problem only begins when the suitcase refuses to close.
PECORINO
Cheese. Important enough to make a detour for. Especially when the detour takes you to Italy.
PAOLO
Musician, food obsessive, Father of Cheese, traveller. Instigator of many a detour.
TRUDE
Artist, colour hunter, co-conspirator.
PUGLIA
Southern Italy. Olive trees. Dangerous levels of good olive oil. Proceed with caution.
Composition in coffee
THE THREE
Olive oil. Cheese. Coffee. The three things upon which civilisation apparently rests.
SACRED BROWN BEANS
Coffee beans. Obviously. But apparently not merely coffee beans.
One, two, three, four... some beans.
We have now moved on from advanced mathematics*
* ADVANCED MATHEMATICS
The art of counting beans, managing stock, or calculating farm shop finances. Characterized by methods closely resembling Baldrick's legendary bean-counting system, where exact numbers are viewed more as a flexible guideline.
COMPOSITION
Something you do with music. Apparently also something you do with coffee. The important thing is hitting the exact note.
THE DISTINGUISHED NOSE
Useful for finding truffles. Also apparently useful for finding the best coffee beans.
ITALIANS
According to Paolo, better at smelling things. Also better at walking in high heels. We make no further claims.
