Lucques olive

Olive lucques

What it is

The Lucques is hand-picked green in late September and October and sold within weeks as olives nouvelles, under an appellation covering the Hérault and the Aude. Its crescent comes from the fruit's own shape, and the flesh is soft enough to leave the stone whole: it is never cracked before curing.

In the kitchen

Serve them cold and plain with bread and nothing else; the flesh is nearer avocado than brine olive, and any assertive dressing buries it. They keep only weeks, so buy in small quantity.

Goes with

Hazelnut Goat cheese Tarragon Lemon Butter Asparagus Olive oil Fennel

Same species

Agrumato lemon oil Olive Cracked olive of the Vallée des Baux Castelvetrano olive Bella di Cerignola olive Gaeta olive

In season alongside

Artichoke Avola almond Caesar’s mushroom Green cracking russula Grenoble walnut Halibut

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