olio

It’s essentially something between olive oil and olio santo, except it’s a little sweeter and less spicy.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

Barkeepers Ben Smith and Austin Polley took over the former Speckled & Drake space and upped their food game, adding an affordable fresh pasta menu with spaghetti aglio e olio, black pepper fettuccine and more.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

While my parents made sure that I hadn’t poisoned my grandmother, I went back to the kitchen and whipped up a simple spaghetti aglio e olio, which I secretly preferred to chanterelles.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019

Ms. Ardu is adding swordfish carpaccio and spaghetti aglio olio to the restaurant’s red-sauce menu.

From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2019

But I have such an olio of affairs, really I know not what to do.

From The Way of the World by William Congreve

One of my favorite aglio e olios had more coarsely ground, but just as crisp, breadcrumbs.

From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2022

Not dainty now, the squire in haste Fell to, and praised their savory taste; Nay, said his meal had such a gout He ne'er in tarts and olios knew.

From Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress by Marmaduke Park

The festivities were duly preceded with the religious ceremonies of the great holyday of St. Patrick's feast, and closed by a grand entertainment at night, which included theatricals, recitations and olios of song and sentiment.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) by Various

Words ending in io or yo add s; as, folios, nuncios, olios, ratios, embryos.

From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by John Hendricks Bechtel

Gargilius, sleek, voluptuous lord, A hundred dainties smoke upon his board; Earth, air, and ocean ransack’d for the feast, In masquerade of foreign olios dress’d.

From A Poetical Cook-Book by Maria J. Moss