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Olive Oil and Pine Nuts

Yone Fernandes

6/22/14: This week on "The Food Guys:" Greg reports on his recent trip to Florence, Italy, where he investigated (and sampled) high-quality extra-virgin olive oil, prosciutto,  Tuscan pistachios, and other regional delicacies. Greg and Jon reveal why pine nuts grown in Italy and elsewhere have become so expensive: climate change.

More on pesto and pine nuts: "Don't Let the Price of Pine Nuts Keep You From Pesto," by Serri Graslie  (All Things Considered," August 2013)

Beth Anne Austein has been spinning tunes on the air (The Folk Show, Dancing With Tradition, Freeforms), as well as recording, editing and mixing audio for Montana Public Radio and Montana PBS, since the Clinton Administration. She’s jockeyed faders or "fixed it in post” for The Plant Detective; Listeners Bookstall; Fieldnotes; Musicians Spotlight; The Write Question; Storycorps; Selected Shorts; Bill Raoul’s music series; orchestral and chamber concerts; lecture series; news interviews; and outside producers’ programs about topics ranging from philosophy to ticks.
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