When the Summer growing season finally arrives in Alabama, I always look forward to the fresh, local, and sustainable produce that´s always readily available. When I was a child my father Sidney Vizzina and my mother Grethcen Vizzina always had tomato plants and cucuzza growing in our back yard.

A lot of people love olive oil for his great taste and his gold color, which sometimes turns a little bit green. A very good olive oil has the fruit flavor, a little bit spicy or soft and a good quality. Most of the time the criteria depends on the type of olives.

Like most men born and raised in the Deep South, Fred Shuttlesworth knew and loved good food. And although he credited his successful weight management on the fact that most of his life he ate only two meals a day, breakfast and dinner, he wasted no time or food at mealtime.