Showing The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Olive Oil in the South of France by Carol Drinkwater

Paperback. Pub the Date: August. 2011 Pages: 352 in Publisher by: Orion Paperbacks All my life. The I have dreamed of acquiring a crumbling shabby-chic house overlooking the sea In my mind's eye. The I have pictured a corner of paradise the where friends can gather to swim. relax. debate. eat fresh fruits picked directly from the garden and great steaming plates of food served from an al fresco kitchen and dished up on to a candlelit table the length of a railway sleeper ... When Carol Drinkwater and her partner Michel have the opportunity to buy 10 acres of disused olive farm in Provence. the idea seems absurd. After all. they don't have a lot of money. and they've only been together a little while. THE OLIVE FARM is the story of the highs and lows of purchasing the farm and life in Provence: the local customs and cuisine; the threats of fire and adoption of a menagerie of ...