I love Olive Oyl... but then so does Popeye and there's no way I'm gonna mess with some girl whose feller has forearms THAT size !

However.nothing beats a dish of good olive oil with balsamic vinegar and some fresh crusty bread straight from the oven ...together with some black olive paste,a simple Greek salad, some local Greek calamari and an ice-cold bottle of Boutari sheltering from the midday sun in the shade of a hilltop taverna on a Greek island with no-one but my thoughts and the owner and his dog.

Spring 2007 and probably one of the greatest meals of my life.

I love the Greeks.... and I love their olive oil.