My Italian teacher (and friend, for whom I hold great affection) Grazia read our last email and it prompted her to share her own story of growing up with olive oil in Abruzzo, Italy. Like many families hers produced their own olive oil each year. Her words are below...
"For me, bread and oil is the snack of my childhood—it’s what I eat at my parents' house (drizzled with our family oil) when it’s too late to cook, I’m hungry, I don’t feel like preparing anything, and so on. In an Italian home, bread, oil, and salt are never in short supply. In the summer, this transforms into bread, oil, and tomato.
The customers of Oliva Bella may not have their own lifelong history with olive oil, but I would love to know how they are creating one now.
And here is the point: You are the one bridging the tradition of bread and oil in Italy with this new experience for your customers."
Her story gave us the idea (okay, it was HER idea...) to ask, How do YOU Oliva Bella? Do you have favorite ways of using Oliva Bella olive oil in your daily lives? We would LOVE to know! | 
