There are ingredients you use, and there are ingredients you live by. For me, extra virgin olive oil belongs to the second kind.

It shapes the way I cook, eat, and see the world — because every drop tells a story of sunlight, soil, and devotion.
This is my personal manifesto — a love letter to flavour, integrity, and life itself.

There’s a quiet kind of confidence that comes from cooking with extra virgin olive oil.
It’s not just a choice of ingredient — it’s a way of being in the kitchen, in the world.

I don’t cook with anything else, not because I’m stubborn, but because I’ve tasted what truth feels like:
the peppery note that lingers in the throat, the scent of fresh olives, the beautiful complexity that meets the body with care and health.

For me, extra virgin olive oil is not just a fat — it’s a philosophy of nourishment.
It carries the full story of the land, the farmer, the season.
It demands care. It forgives mistakes. It rewards simplicity.

It is also the only 100% natural oil — extracted simply from the olive fruit — with no chemicals, no refinement, no shortcuts.
Its sustainability comes from its nature: trees that protect the soil, preserve biodiversity, and turn sunlight into nourishment.
In the right hands, an olive grove is a living ecosystem —
a small, quiet balance between humans and earth.

You can fry an egg in it, drizzle it over tomatoes, bake a cake with it — and every time, it transforms food into something more than sustenance: a connection between body and soul, nature and culture, life and land.

Cooking with extra virgin olive oil is an act of respect —
for our body,
for the soil that feeds us,
for the hands that harvest,
and for the moments we share around the table.

Everything else feels like noise.
This — this green-gold simplicity — is my manifesto.

I’m not a scientist — that’s why I don’t write scientific reports.
But from Hippocrates to today, countless studies and articles confirm what we already know through experience:
that extra virgin olive oil is rich in antioxidants, polyphenols, and life itself. It supports our heart, our cells, and our sense of balance.