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...But on Saturday, some of the crop harvested by the black-clad nuns who serve at the 150-year-old complex on the Mount of Olives will function as something altogether more exalted: the holy oil that will...
...Hence the fact that they grow so well at the foot of Mount Etna, where autumn temperatures drop sharply at night....
...After a couple of casual days spent fishing, bouldering and exploring, we continued deeper into the wilderness to the more austere, seldom-visited Mount Hooker....
...Only on the lower slopes were there olives and vines, and only in the valleys was there grain....
...When the relentless sun sinks, in late afternoon, the Mount of Olives – which we can see from our balcony – turns incandescent in refracted light and the Old City’s stone walls glow yellow and pink....
...The best pistachios come from Bronte, a village on the western side of Mount Etna....
...In Atkinson’s most complex and satisfying novel to date, we see Ursula’s many lives and deaths....
...To the left looms the Mount of Olives overlooking East Jerusalem; behind us, the Golden Dome of the Rock, built in AD 691 by Caliph Abdul Malik ibn Marwan on top of the Second Jewish Temple....
...A week later, Easter Day, he led his congregation on the stiff climb up Black Hill, our own Mount of Olives, and was rewarded with a turnout of 60....
...But if you want to go sightseeing, the costs mount up pretty fast.”...
...The contradictions mount up but the oil, when you can get it, is sublime. For Palestinian olive oil in the UK, visit www.zaytoun.org; in North America, www.mountainhighimports.com...
...Flavours of black olive, tar, black anything. No hurry to drink this....
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