Plogger RSS Feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Plogger http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:53:32 +0100 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:53:32 +0100 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:53:32 +0100 http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/olive_oil_pressing/olives05.jpg <p><a href="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/olive_oil_pressing/olives05.jpg" title="The Golden Nectar"> <img src="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/231-olives05.jpg" alt="The Golden Nectar" style="border: 1px solid #000000;" /> </a></p><p>The Golden Nectar</p><p>The end result! The press juice goes through a separator that removes all the water from the juice to give you your cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil!</p> http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/231-olives05.jpg Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:53:31 +0100 http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/olive_oil_pressing/castle03.jpg <p><a href="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/olive_oil_pressing/castle03.jpg" title="New Photograph (no caption)"> <img src="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/230-castle03.jpg" alt="New Photograph (no caption)" style="border: 1px solid #000000;" /> </a></p><p>New Photograph (no caption)</p><p></p> http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/230-castle03.jpg Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:53:31 +0100 http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/olive_oil_pressing/olives01.jpg <p><a href="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/olive_oil_pressing/olives01.jpg" title="100Kg of Rosie's olives"> <img src="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/229-olives01.jpg" alt="100Kg of Rosie's olives" style="border: 1px solid #000000;" /> </a></p><p>100Kg of Rosie's olives</p><p>You need to have at least 100Kg of olives to go to the Frantoio - the olive press. If you don0t have enough then they'll often let you share with someone else and give you your share of the oil... but then it wouldn't be all your own produce :-)</p> http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/229-olives01.jpg Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:53:30 +0100 http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/olive_oil_pressing/olives02.jpg <p><a href="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/olive_oil_pressing/olives02.jpg" title="The press"> <img src="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/228-olives02.jpg" alt="The press" style="border: 1px solid #000000;" /> </a></p><p>The press</p><p>Unfortunately I didn't get a photo of the first stage (which is optional, not all the people getting their olives pressed decided to do it!!). Before you hit the stone grinding machines you have your olives washed. Then they are fed under the stone wheels you see here.</p> http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/228-olives02.jpg Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:53:27 +0100 http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/olive_oil_pressing/olives06.jpg <p><a href="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/olive_oil_pressing/olives06.jpg" title="Was it worth it...."> <img src="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/223-olives06.jpg" alt="Was it worth it...." style="border: 1px solid #000000;" /> </a></p><p>Was it worth it....</p><p>Well the 100Kg of olives got 15 and a half litres of oil! It is great watching it come off the press, and if you are lucky one of the other locals there pressing their olives might have brought a bottle or two of their own wine... A by product off all the pressing is the dry olive cake removed after all the oil has gone. This is used to heat the entire Frantoio!</p> http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/223-olives06.jpg Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:53:25 +0100 http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/olive_oil_pressing/olives04.jpg <p><a href="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/olive_oil_pressing/olives04.jpg" title="The Pressing of the cake..."> <img src="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/219-olives04.jpg" alt="The Pressing of the cake..." style="border: 1px solid #000000;" /> </a></p><p>The Pressing of the cake...</p><p>Unfortunately the camera kept steaming up, so we missed another sateg :-( The results from the stone milling is a mushy mess, This is spread out on a disk athese disks are piled one on top of each other to make a large stack. These stacks are then put int he presses and slowly compacted removing all the oil.</p> http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/219-olives04.jpg Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:49:33 +0100 http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/grape_picking/grapes04.jpg <p><a href="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/grape_picking/grapes04.jpg" title="New Photograph (no caption)"> <img src="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/206-grapes04.jpg" alt="New Photograph (no caption)" style="border: 1px solid #000000;" /> </a></p><p>New Photograph (no caption)</p><p></p> http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/206-grapes04.jpg Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:49:33 +0100 http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/grape_picking/grapes02.jpg <p><a href="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/grape_picking/grapes02.jpg" title="New Photograph (no caption)"> <img src="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/205-grapes02.jpg" alt="New Photograph (no caption)" style="border: 1px solid #000000;" /> </a></p><p>New Photograph (no caption)</p><p></p> http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/205-grapes02.jpg Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:49:32 +0100 http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/grape_picking/grapes05.jpg <p><a href="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/grape_picking/grapes05.jpg" title="New Photograph (no caption)"> <img src="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/204-grapes05.jpg" alt="New Photograph (no caption)" style="border: 1px solid #000000;" /> </a></p><p>New Photograph (no caption)</p><p></p> http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/204-grapes05.jpg Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:49:31 +0100 http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/grape_picking/grapes03.jpg <p><a href="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/grape_picking/grapes03.jpg" title="New Photograph (no caption)"> <img src="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/203-grapes03.jpg" alt="New Photograph (no caption)" style="border: 1px solid #000000;" /> </a></p><p>New Photograph (no caption)</p><p></p> http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/203-grapes03.jpg Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:49:30 +0100 http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/grape_picking/grapes06.jpg <p><a href="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/grape_picking/grapes06.jpg" title="New Photograph (no caption)"> <img src="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/202-grapes06.jpg" alt="New Photograph (no caption)" style="border: 1px solid #000000;" /> </a></p><p>New Photograph (no caption)</p><p></p> http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/202-grapes06.jpg Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:49:29 +0100 http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/grape_picking/grapes01.jpg <p><a href="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/grape_picking/grapes01.jpg" title="New Photograph (no caption)"> <img src="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/201-grapes01.jpg" alt="New Photograph (no caption)" style="border: 1px solid #000000;" /> </a></p><p>New Photograph (no caption)</p><p></p> http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/201-grapes01.jpg Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:49:00 +0100 http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/torre_del_lago/torre_di_lago6.jpg <p><a href="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/torre_del_lago/torre_di_lago6.jpg" title="New Photograph (no caption)"> <img src="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/200-torre_di_lago6.jpg" alt="New Photograph (no caption)" style="border: 1px solid #000000;" /> </a></p><p>New Photograph (no caption)</p><p></p> http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/200-torre_di_lago6.jpg Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:48:59 +0100 http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/torre_del_lago/torre_di_lago.jpg <p><a href="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/torre_del_lago/torre_di_lago.jpg" title="New Photograph (no caption)"> <img src="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/199-torre_di_lago.jpg" alt="New Photograph (no caption)" style="border: 1px solid #000000;" /> </a></p><p>New Photograph (no caption)</p><p></p> http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/199-torre_di_lago.jpg Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:48:59 +0100 http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/torre_del_lago/torre_di_lago3.jpg <p><a href="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/local_events/torre_del_lago/torre_di_lago3.jpg" title="New Photograph (no caption)"> <img src="http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/198-torre_di_lago3.jpg" alt="New Photograph (no caption)" style="border: 1px solid #000000;" /> </a></p><p>New Photograph (no caption)</p><p></p> http://www.palazzomarmi.com/galleries/thumbs/198-torre_di_lago3.jpg