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olio

[oh-lee-oh] / ˈoʊ liˌoʊ /


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Caffè Panna in Manhattan serves a gelato con olio that features vanilla ice cream with Sicilian extra virgin olive oil.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2024

Our preschooler was famished, so we headed to the property’s Italian restaurant, where the attentive wait staff helped us match Sula’s wines with minestrone soup, insalata mista, pizza and spaghetti aglio e olio.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2020

While my parents made sure that I hadn’t poisoned my grandmother, I went back to the kitchen and whipped up a simple spaghetti aglio e olio, which I secretly preferred to chanterelles.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019

But I believe I had Peruvian chef Virgilio Martinez’s blessing for my Cal-Peru-Ecuador olio.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2018

Much personal memoir, too, shone on the shelves, Which boasted a whimsical olio; Decorum sang small, in octavoes and twelves, And scandal in quarto and folio.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 282, November 10, 1827 by Various




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