Archive for September, 2006

29 Sep

Remedies and Olive Oil

By Kate Hopkins,
Still not convinced on how olive oil was an important component of Mediterranean culture? Here’s a list of various ways olive oil was integrated into everyday life.
Note that I do not advocate nor claim the efficiency of these claims.
* Hair: People used olive oil as a conditioner of sorts. After shampooing one’s [...]

29 Sep

Green Olive Salad

If you like green olives and bitter food, you might enjoy this recipe.
Ingredients:
1. 250 gr pitted green olives
2. 4 stalks of green onions
3. 3 stalks of green garlic
4. a bunch of parsley
5. about 1/2 cup of roughly chopped walnuts
6. 1 - 2 Tbs pomegranate concentrate (available in Middle Eastern Stores)
7. olive oil
8. Salt, red pepper [...]

29 Sep

Storing olive oil

You already know that olive oil should be placed away from light, but did you know that the refrigerator is a suitable dark spot? It shields oil from spoilage-inducing heat and oxygen.
Although cold temperatures may solidify the oil, they won’t affect its quality. If your cabinets are fairly cool, oil should be fine there, too. [...]

29 Sep

Arts and Olive Festival in Woodside

Olives, flavored olive oils and vinegars will be available for tasting at the ninth annual Arts & Olive Festival, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 1, at Canada College, 4200 Farm Hill Blvd. in Woodside.
Carol Anglin will give a talk, “The Passionate Olive: 101 Things to Do with Olive Oil,” at 2 p.m. [...]

28 Sep

Army prepares to safeguard Palestinian olive farmers

By Yaakov Katz and Tovah Lazaroff,
To ensure a calm olive harvest this fall in the territories, compared to the last four tumultuous ones, the IDF and the Civil Administration have been working in the last month to ease tensions among settlers, Palestinian farmers and left-wing activists.
“Our goal is to allow the Palestinians to pick every [...]

28 Sep

NUDO Adopt an Olive Tree

Nudo is an olive grove. And part of it can be yours.
Adopt one of its 881 trees for a year and you’ll receive all the produce from your tree. Imagine dunking your bread in your own oil from your own tree 1,500 miles away on a hillside in Italy.
It’s delicious, it’s good for the world [...]

28 Sep

Seven-metre fingernails win place in book of records

Another way to use Olives Oil…
Redmond, 65, earned an entry in the latest edition of Guinness World Records with the world’s longest fingernails that have now reached a resplendent 24 feet 7 inches (7.51 metres).
Redmond, who started growing her fingernails 27 years ago, has a meticulous routine to keep them in tip-top condition.
“I clean them [...]

28 Sep

Olive harvest appears very small

Olive harvest has been underway for about two weeks and farmers say they are not finding much fruit on their trees. In an average year, farmers would harvest about 4 tons of olives from each acre of trees.
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27 Sep

Narranghi Olive Grove first Two Sisters pressing

Di and Warren West of Narranghi Road, together with Di’s sister Kerry and Paul Moran of Sydney, have produced their first pressing of olive oil from the Narranghi Olive Grove, just outside Braidwood.
Narranghi (Nar-ang-guy) means Peak of the Mountain, and Di moved back to the family land nearly 6 years ago, and the sisters decided [...]

27 Sep

Tunisie: L’huile d’olive, un produit de luxe

Il y a quelques difficultés chez nous, et son prix après s’être envolée vers des cimes à 7 DT le litre, il se replie à moins de 5 dinars sous l’effet de problèmes d’exportation, alors qu’en Europe l’huile d’olive est devenue un produit de luxe enregistrant une augmentation de 38% sur 12 mois (2005-2006), avec [...]

27 Sep

Olive Fennel Tapenade

1/2 pound pitted black olives in brine
2 teaspoons minced garlic
1 1/2 teaspoons fennel seed
1/2 teaspoon red wine vinegar
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon Pernod
1 tablespoon minced parsley
Rinse the pitted black olives, shake them dry and place them in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the metal blade.
With a mortar and pestle, pound the garlic [...]

27 Sep

Italy trade group to promote olive oil

The Italian Trade Commission said Wednesday it will hold a food fair in Tokyo on Oct. 18 to promote prize-winning Italian olive oils and other popular food including pasta, cheeses, candy and wines.
The event will highlight in particular olive oils which won the prestigious Ercole Olivario awards presented each year in Spoleto, a city in [...]

27 Sep

Branching out to olives in Texas

By Julie Bonnin,
In Texas, growers are pressing forward with a crop that’s anything but drab
On the historic day of Bill and Bev Kemp’s first commercial olive harvest, Jack Russell terriers romp in the furrows beneath the trees, and two woolly llamas from next door watch the activity from the gravel road that runs past the [...]

27 Sep

More on olive oil classification

By Reggie Aspiras,

Olive Oil is classified by the degree of acidity. The best are cold-pressed varieties:
Extra Virgin—the fruitiest, most flavorful and, obviously, the costliest of them all. It is a cold-pressed product of the first extraction/pressing of the olives, with 0.8-1 percent acidity. It comes in a myriad of colors from deep to golden green, [...]

26 Sep

Arab Farmers to Receive Security for Olive Harvest

Palestinian Authority Arab farmers will be protected by Israeli security during the olive harvest which is expected to begin within the next month, according to Army Radio.
Defense Minister Amir Peretz announced Tuesday that anyone attempting to interfere with or harm the farmers as they pick their olives would be dealt with severely.
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26 Sep

Virgin and extra virgin olive oil worth the price

what’s the difference between virgin and evoo extra virgin olive oil? Here the answer from Sheah Rarback.
Q: Is there a difference in virgin olive oil that makes it worth the higher price?
A: There are some food products where the less expensive choice is just fine, but that is not the case with olive oil. There [...]

26 Sep

[Tunisie] Huile d’Olive 110 mille tonnes exportées pour des recettes de 600 millions DT

Lors d’un point de presse organisé la semaine dernière au siège de l’Office national de l’huile, le PDG, M. Fehri Souilem a estimé que les exportations d’huile d’olive du 1er novembre 2005 jusqu’à ce jour ont atteint 110 mille tonnes pour des recettes d’environ 600 millions de DT. Cependant, quelque 50 mille tonnes exportables dont [...]

26 Sep

The Olive Oil More Award Winner in the Spanish History

In 1954 Cooperativa Virgen del Castillo was founded, it is the main cooperative of ALMAZARAS DE LA SUBBETICA. Since this date there is very hard work looking for the High Quality. This hard work has made as a result that we have an extra virgin olive oil that is always better than anyone, around the [...]

26 Sep

Huile d’olive

Huile d’olive, qui es-tu? D’où viens-tu? Quelles sont les règles à suivre pour apprécier à leur juste valeur tes saveurs nées de la terre et du soleil de Provence, d’Italie, d’Espagne, du Portugal, de Grèce, d’Australie, de Nouvelle-Zélande, des États-Unis ou d’Afrique du Nord?
Robert Beauchemin répond à toutes ces questions et nous livre une cinquantaine [...]

25 Sep

California olive ranch to plant 500,000 trees in Glenn County

California Olive Ranch, Oroville, Calif., is more than doubling its olive oil production with the planting of the largest high-density olive oil orchard in North America near Artois in Northern California.
About 500,000 olive trees will be plantged on 883 acres of land in Glenn County, a major olive producing area. This new land and orchard [...]

25 Sep

The magic of olive oil

By Karen Johnson,
Fruity to floral with just a hint of spiciness. There can also be a trace of sweetness or even a bitter bite.
Can any food have all those qualities?
Absolutely. This food is “heart-healthy” too.
So, what is it?
Olive oil, that wonderful product from the fruit of the olive tree.
Much of the olive oil on our [...]

25 Sep

Tagine de poulet aux olives

Peut être préparé à l’avance
Temps de préparation : 15 minutes Temps de cuisson : 50 minutes
Pour 6 personnes
Ingredients
* 1kg de cuisses et pilons de poulet
* 1 oignon
* 250 g d’olives vertes dénoyautés
* Beurre
* Sel, poivre noir, safran, cannelle
* 1 citron
* 1 demi bouquet de coriandre
Recette
Emincer l’oignon.
Dans une cocotte, faire fondre le beurre et y faire [...]

24 Sep

$ 4 Million Direct Agricultural Losses in Khan Younis City

Khan Younis Governor,Dr. Usama al-Farra, announced Sunday that the total direct agricultural losses estimated about US $ 4 Million in the wake of the recent Israeli incursions in the southern Gaza Strip (GS) city of Khan Younis during July 2006.
In a statement, issued by the Governorate Information office, Al-Farra pointed out that 5500 trees of [...]

22 Sep

Olive Oil in Diet Better Than Whole Grain Bread

By Hank Dekker,
For those who want to live a healthy lifestyle, new research has shown that the daily use of Olive Oil in your meal is especially beneficial. In fact the use of Olive Oil seems to be even more beneficial then eating an extra slice of whole wheat bread. This is the outcome of [...]

21 Sep

USANA Health Sciences Launches New TenX(TM) Antioxidant Blast

TenX provides the equivalent of two servings of real fruit and is fortified with important antioxidants, including vitamin C, plus diverse polyphenols like USANA’s exclusive Olivol(R) olive-fruit extract. TenX Blast is also all-natural, free of artificial flavors, and free of artificial colors, sweeteners and preservatives.
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