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Ingredient Spotlight: The Big O, Oranges
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Now I know it isn't exactly prime citrus season with all the markets awash in stone fruits and all, but I wanted to point you to an article I wrote for Edible San Francisco earlier this year. It is a profile on Olsen Organic Farms and Ken and Kathy Olsen.
"Ken Olsen is a farmer - he is known for his clementines, navel oranges, and avocados. If the sun is warming the skins on his citrus, I promise you can smell them at ten feet. His wife, Kathy Olsen is a fourth-grade teacher - she is known for letting her students smell calming herbs during pop-quizzes. She is also known for her wonderful distillates - lime, navel orange, and orange blossom. You can imagine my surprise when she told me distilled orange blossoms were “definitely an aphrodisiac.” I guess you have to wait until you are thirty to get your fourth-grade teacher to tell you the good stuff..." (read more)
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