When I watched Julia and Jacques cook, I got a tiny taste of that familial warmth that I so missed from my early childhood. Instead of watching Scooby-Doo like my school friends, I became deeply absorbed in cooking shows, specifically those of Julia Child and Jacques Pépin. I was a latchkey kid, often alone while my parents were at work and my brothers, nine and ten years older than me, were busy with their own lives. In Los Angeles, we were a family I barely recognized. In Iran, we had every meal together and spent countless hours around the table filled with family, friends, and conversation. My parents worked endless hours to create a new life for us. Eventually they were able to save up enough to buy a small dry-cleaning business in Beverly Hills, one that my mother still runs to this day. My father was hired as an engineer at Parsons International Engineering in Pasadena, and my mother, who never had worked, desperately tried to find any job she could get to help my father in rebuilding our lives. My brothers rejoined us when we found ourselves safely in Los Angeles, a place where we had neither family nor connections and barely spoke the language. It was a couple of years before my father was able to leave Iran to be with my mother and me. Along with so many others, our lives changed dramatically. We had to leave everything behind: our family, our friends, our home, and all of the possessions that my parents had worked so hard to provide for us. Without hesitation, he sent my two older brothers to boarding school in Switzerland and then sent my mother and me to London. My father was a partner at a large construction company that built projects for the Iranian government, and he’d heard rumblings that the revolution was near. When I was a young child, my family was forced to emigrate at the start of the Iranian Revolution. Introduction The Power of a Good Meal with Family & Friendsįor me, the foundation of cooking always started with family. With stunning photos by Ann Elliott Cutting and a foreword by chef Jet Tila ( Chopped, Cutthroat Kitchen), Olive & Thyme is the ingredient every kitchen needs: a fun, inspirational guide to enjoying what matters most in life-family, friends, good food, and music. Davies brings that same passion to her book, Olive & Thyme, which shares her most popular recipes (drawn from French, Californian, Italian, and Middle Eastern influences), along with her breezy, practical entertaining advice. A consummate host and lauded chef, Davies brings her love of togetherness to Olive & Thyme, where the vibe is relaxed and warm and the food is fresh and delicious. Ask her for tips on hosting the in-laws for dinner, and she'll walk you through her juicy roast chicken with thyme and which wine to serve and music to play. restaurant and marketplace, Olive & Thyme, and she'll come by your table to see how you're enjoying your avocado and burrata toast. Stop by her house and she'll whip you up a fluffy, buttery vegetable quiche with fresh greens in a homemade dressing. So what are you waiting for? Weekend is coming, time to bake some delicious bread and impress your significant other.Melina Davies treats everyone like family. Besides these couple of slices of bread we used for the picture, hubs simply tore the rest into pieces and ate it with this delicious white chicken chili I made, don’t worry, recipe is coming soon for that. For the cuteness factor.Īs you bake this marvelous bread, your kitchen will smell amazing and it will make you very happy, your tummy too.Īt first I thought this bread was just too cute to cut into. I put some thyme in the batter itself, but it was so pretty I just had to put a few pretty leaves on the top. This bread just screamed for some fresh thyme. I love to incorporate different ingredients in my bread, and if you’ve never tried cheese and olives in a bread, you must. I must tell you that it literally hurt him as he was cutting some for me. I told you before that my husband is experimenting with growing herbs and this lovely bread has fresh thyme from his harvest. The smell is unbearable and it’s simply gorgeous. But nothing pleases me more, than when a fresh loaf of bread comes out of the oven. Not only do I love eating bread, I love baking bread.
That’s why every single time I’ve tried a low carb diet, I fail.
If there was one food on this earth that I couldn’t live without, that would be bread. An easy and delicious loaf, perfect combination of ingredients. This Cheddar Olive Thyme Bread fills your kitchen with wonderful aromas as it bakes.
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