💥 Coming soon: Drizzle. Dropping 28th of May.
Drizzle is our love letter to olive oil. It’s a community cookbook, with recipes from our award-winning producers and network of other small-batch growers, millers, and olive oil experts from across the Mediterranean and beyond.
Written by our founder and certified olive oil sommelier, Sarah Vachon @worldoliveoilsommelier , see this as your guide into the world of extra virgin.
Along with multi-generational recipes from olive oil families, expect entries from Sunday Times Bestseller Anna Jones @we_are_food , soup queen @sssssoupsssss , Aussie-Greek chef @helena_marieee , Registered Nutritional Therapist @lieblinghealth , @Ottolenghi recipe writer @christinasots and plant-based chef @kalicooking .
From classic to unexpected pairings, like pineapple, mango, and chocolate, Drizzle unlocks the full potential of extra virgin olive oil and proves that this cornerstone of Mediterranean cooking—when produced and sourced well—can be the star of any dish.
If you’re olive oil obsessed like us or just EVOO curious, this is your cookbook.
We cannot wait to share this with you. Pre-orders are now open. Get yours, via the link in bio.
Published by Mitchell Beazley for @octopus_books_ .
#oliveoil #extravirginoliveoil #cookbook #recipes
🍋ANCHOVIES & LEMON. // The perfect balance.
Hold onto the last days of aperitivo with anchovies and lemon—super simple, built on quality ingredients.
Find the best anchovies you can get your hands on. Cantabria in northern Spain has a reputation for incredible quality. It’s where a lot of the fish are landed, giving the local canneries access to the freshest catch, preserved according to tradition. Good anchovies shouldn’t fall apart or be unpleasantly salty: they should hold their shape and have a complex umami quality to them.
Once you have your anchovies, all they need is a very fine slice of lemon and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. Choose an unwaxed lemon as you’ll be eating the peel too.
To make your plate:
—Carefully remove the anchovies from the tin and space them out evenly on your dish.
—Thinly slice your lemons.
—Place the lemons on the plate with your anchovies, alternating lemon and anchovy.
—Drizzle generously with Citizens of Soil’s limited edition Sicilian EVOO.
The countdown is officially on. 🫒
We’re just 14 days away from the launch of Drizzle, and it’s a total “pinch-me” moment. We have been living and breathing this book for two years now, and it’s finally about to be out in the world.
Whether you’re a total olive oil geek or just starting to explore beyond the supermarket shelf, this book was written for you. It’s our collective love letter to the Mediterranean, featuring 80 recipes and variations curated from the people who know it best—award-winning producers, international experts, and the chefs in our community.
Seeing these stories and years of research finally about to land in your kitchens is the best feeling! We’re nearly there.
Two weeks to go until the May 28th launch. Secure your pre-order at the link in our bio to make sure it’s on your doorstep in time for the sunny meals ahead. 🕊️
Let’s chew the fat on one of the most demonised parts of our diet.
Mediterranean cultures, who consume olive oil daily and generously, have some of the strongest health outcomes in the world. Why?
🫒Fat is your most efficient fuel.
It contains 9 calories per gram—more than double carbohydrates or protein. That’s not a warning; that’s a feature. It’s why fat is what your body burns during rest, sleep, and sustained endurance. Slow, steady, lasting energy.
🫒 Fat builds your hormones.
Estrogen, testosterone, cortisol—all of them are synthesised from dietary fat. Cut fat too low and your hormonal balance pays the price, often before you even realise why.
🫒 Fat unlocks your vitamins.
Vitamins A, D, E, and K are fat-soluble, which means your body simply cannot absorb them without fat present. You can eat all the right things and still be deficient if there’s no fat to carry them.
Not all fat is the same, of course. Extra virgin olive oil is one of the few that does all of this while also being rich in polyphenols—the antioxidant compounds that give good oil its bitterness and pepper hit, and that your body recognises as genuinely beneficial.
Low fat and no fat isn’t the answer: high quality, healthy fat is.
It started with a single sip that changed everything. 🫒✨
For a long time, we were those people who would fill our suitcases with liters of local olive oil every time we travelled back to our family friends in Crete, just to bring that vibrant, peppery energy back to our own kitchen.
We couldn’t find anything like it on the supermarket shelves—so we decided to build the club we wished existed.
Think of Citizens of Soil as your direct line to the world’s best small-batch, regenerative groves. Sourced personally by our founder and olive oil sommelier, Sarah @worldoliveoilsommelier , the Club is about curating a range of oils from producers who prioritise flavour, nutrition, and sustainability.
Every 1–2 months, we bring you a new, fresh harvest to match the seasons—imagine bright and floral for spring, or intense and peppery for the winter months.
These are high-antioxidant oils, packed with polyphenols, and consciously-sourced from small-scale farms that are at least 50% female-led.
It’s a way to explore the Mediterranean and beyond through fully-traceable EVOOs that tell the story of the farmer and the specific patch of earth they tend.
Beyond the bottle, you get the seasonal recipe inspiration to match, along with access to guided tastings and community events.
We truly believe that once you’ve tasted oil with this much life in it, the kitchen feels a lot more exciting.
If you’re ready to see what the fuss is about, head to the link in our bio to explore this month’s featured harvest. 🕊️
Tzatziki doughnuts- oregano, olive oil enriched dough filled with mint tzatziki and rolled in oregano sugar @citizensofsoil
An enriched dough scented with oregano and softened with olive oil sets the foundation, yielding a crumb that is tender yet structured, more brioche than bakery glaze. Inside, a cool core of homemade mint tzatziki brings brightness and lactic freshness yoghurt, garlic and cucumber sharpened by herbs rather than sweetness.
The finishing layer is where the composition tightens: whipped feta, aerated and gently saline, is lifted with fresh mint and a final drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. Each element is deliberate, but it is the oil that quietly defines the architecture of flavour.
This is the Delicate Greek Blend from Citizens of Soil green and herbaceous, with a soft peppery finish and a rounded, almost buttery fruit profile. It threads through the dough, enriches the feta, and carries the aromatics rather than competing with them.
A collaboration that treats olive oil not as background fat, but as seasoning, structure, and voice.
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#doughnut #greek #oliveoil #evoo #oil
Meet Candice & Fabrizio. 🇮🇹
She comes from the world of Italian opera and theatre; he comes from a background in land management and conservation. They describe their move into olive oil as a “mistake”—the kind of beautiful accident that happens when you simply don’t stop planting trees.
Ten years and twenty hectares later, they’ve brought the drama of the stage paired with the beauty of nature to the Maremma. Their farm sits on the plains of what was once an ancient Roman lake, “Lacus Prilis,” where the trees now battle relentless heat and salty sea winds. Fabrizio believes it’s this constant struggle against the elements that makes their olives so strong and the oil so powerful.
It’s a life that Fabrizio says “naturally selects people who do it for passion, not profit.” That passion is exactly what you taste in their Extra Rare. It’s quintessential Tuscan: intense and herbaceous with a scent of artichoke, followed by a bold, spicy finish.
With a polyphenol count of over 500 mg/kg, it’s a powerhouse of a harvest. Candice takes hers over natural yogurt and nuts, while Fabrizio recommends it drizzled over a steak Florentine or a rich bean soup to let the pepper really sing.
To honour the artistry behind the bottle, we collaborated with artist Chiara Perano @ciao__chiara , whose label captures those sun-drenched, dusty pinks of the Maremma at dusk.
Our Tuscan Extra Rare is available now at the link in our bio. 🫒✨
Something’s brewing on Monmouth Street. 🫒✨
In one month, we’re back opening the doors to our second-ever pop-up. Throughout June, we’ll be taking up residence in the heart of Seven Dials, joining some of our favourite neighbours like @monmouthcoffee , @aesop@monceyewear and @lelabofragrances
Like last summer in Notting Hill, we’re turning the space into an Olive Oil Bar—a place to slow down, taste, and talk about what we love most, olive oil. Here’s a glimpse of what’s happening:
• Retail & ‘Open Bottle’ Tastings: Walk in any time to find your favourite harvest.
• Masterclasses: Guided tastings with our founder & EVOO sommelier @worldoliveoilsommelier
• The Drizzle Launch: The official first home of our newest arrival, the Drizzle cookbook.
Consider this your invitation to come and hang out with us in the city. More details and booking links to follow, but for now, mark your calendars.
See you in June at Seven Dials. 📍
“The UK’s most beautiful olive oil brand.” 🕊️ That’s what landed me an interview on this podcast.
And I take that seriously. The brand, the oils, the land, the artisans behind them—I care deeply for what we’re building together.
I often get asked about how I got into olive oil. And why? How I’ve grown this business (@citizensofsoil with my partner @vachontour ) from the ground-up. And what’s next?
Give it a listen and see why this podcast is a new favourite to learn from others in start-ups on their journey.
And subscribe to the Tomorrow Brands podcast by Ruth Fittock. An absolute brilliant marketer who’s worked on some of the most exciting FMCG brands in the UK (and now beyond). ✨
Link in bio. ⚡️
Tomatoes have a little company, can’t go wrong with some good burrata, basil and the best EVOO😍😍
@citizensofsoil
#tomatosalad #tomatoes #burrata #healthy #homemade
If you were wondering where the inspiration for this year’s @metgalaofficial_ looks came from—we have some theories…
Turns out the ‘Garden of Time’ looks a lot like our bottle shelf. 🌿
We’ve paired the night’s best looks with their Citizens of Soil counterparts. Honestly, the resemblance is a little too good.
Which pairing is your winner?
