A touch of Tuscany with Italian olive bread

The pleasant saltiness of olives makes them the perfect addition to traditional Italian bread. Making your own olive bread requires just a handful of ingredients that you most likely already have on hand.

This Italian olive bread recipe calls for black olives, make sure you buy them with the pit included. Whole olives (with the pits still inside) are the highest quality olives. Going through the trouble of pitting them yourself yields the best olive bread.

An olive bread this tasty deserved to be accompanied by fine wine and cheeses. Try serving it with Sicilian eggplant caponata or butternut squash soup.