Provisions Shop

Mamma Mia! One could only imagine how excited we were to get a phone call from Lidia Bastianich’s NYC restaurant “Felidia”, asking us if we would sell them our new harvest of OLIO NUOVO and our HOUSE BLEND Stonehouse California Olive Oils. We replied, “si!”… and brought our cloudy, yummy looking Olio Nuovo, as well as our classically delicious House Blend, over to their beautiful restaurant. Chef Fortunato Nicotra, Executive Chef of Felidia, said he wanted to use our Olio Nuovo for special holiday dishes.

Some may be surprised that an Italian restaurant with an Italian chef from Italy would be interested in anything other than using Italian products for his fine cuisine. In an interview found on http://www.hautenotes.com/2009/04/fortunato-nicotra—executive.html, Nicotra says, “Using fresh, local ingredients is more traditional in terms of Italian cuisine than anything else. When Italians cook, they get the best and the freshest tomatoes they can–they’d never use any that came from far away or were out of season.” This makes sense because our organically farmed grove guarantees our oils are amongst the freshest and the production of our oil uses fewer resources than imported oil. Go to: http://www.provisionsshop.com/product/olio-nuovo to read more about our Olio Nuovo.

Wine Spectator named Felidia one of the “Top Ten Italian Restaurants in the United States” in 1998, and in 2008 Jerry Shriver of USA Today named it number #2 in his end of year round up of restaurants around the world. We are honored that Chef Fortunato Nicotra, and the whole Felidia gang, purchased our oils to use for their specialty holiday dishes. Everyone, go wine and dine at Felidia as a holiday treat for you and your loved ones, and let us know how our oils taste!!

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