By Elise Kleeman,
Caltech undergraduate Dvin Adalian was feeling restless.
With his friend Ricky Jones, he considered all manner of interesting distractions. In the end, inspiration lay just outside the door. Caltech is dotted with olive trees - trees, they noticed, with fruit just beginning to ripen.
So the pair decided to make their own olive oil.
The 94th international meeting on olive oil, which opened here in Spanish capital three days ago, appointed Iran as the president of ‘Olive International High Council’.
In a ceremony attended by representatives from 13 member states and those recently joining the council, Davoud Salehi, Iran’s ambassador to Spain took over from Egypt as the council’s president [...]
Fritz Grupe hopes to prove the rebirth of olive-oil production in California with his new olive orchard at his Lodi home and property
Text by Reed Fujii,
Picture : Michael McCollum/The Record,
Fritz Grupe, perhaps best known as the Stockton builder of Brookside and other major projects, never planned to get into land development.
He recently recalled that as [...]
By Martha Proctor,
Of the so many things to savor about our recent trip to Spain, I was struck by the dominant crop on the arid land. As our 747 approached Madrid, we looked down and saw huge orchards of olive and almond trees stretching for miles.
The fruits of both trees permeate the Mediterranean diet, which [...]
L’olivier et la culture de l’olive à Nice - derniers jours d’exposition à la Maison de l’Environnement de la Ville de Nice, qui permet de découvrir de magnifiques photos des plus beaux oliviers de notre région ainsi que les outils les plus caractéristiques de notre oléiculture. (depuis le 3 jusqu’au Mardi 28 Novembre).
L’olivier, est symbole [...]
On Sunday, Coldiretti Ascoli-Fermo will collect signatures in Grottammare in support of labels indicating the origin of olive oil. “Aside from a DOP olive oil (from protected origin), three traditional food oils, an IGP (protected geographic indication) coming soon and two oil cities, over half of oil in the Marche region is produced in the [...]
Par Hamid Saïdani,
Il s’agit, à travers ce plan de plantation, d’exploiter toutes les potentialités existantes afin de hisser la filière oléicole algérienne au même niveau que les autres pays du Maghreb.
Afin de réduire un tant soit peu la dépendance de l’Algérie en huiles, notamment végétales, dont les cours au niveau international ne cessent de grimper, [...]
NUTHETAL, Germany–Western European scientists investigated the ability of the Mediterranean diet to protect DNA against oxidative damage and to reduce cancer incidence, focusing on olive oil and its phenolic content. Results of their trial, published in the FASEB Journal (Epub online before print, Nov. 16, 2006), showed olive oil reduces DNA oxidation, and increased olive [...]
Sixth annual Blessing of the Olives — 10 a.m. Dec. 2. Father Aurelio will give the traditional blessing, followed by an Olive Harvest Tasting featuring local artisan olives, olive oils, cheeses, wines and breads. Mission San Francisco Solano de Sonoma, East Spain and First Street East, Sonoma Plaza, Sonoma. $10. 707-996-1090, www.olivefestival.com.
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It’s extra virgin, great on salads and a lubricant for relationships in the Middle East. It’s Peace Oil– olive oil produced in Northern Israel by a collaboration of Arabs, Jews, Bedouins and Druze working together.
This joint venture is sponsored by the Charities Advisory Trust which encourages co-operation between communities.
Its vision is that through economic co-operation [...]
Compiled by Allison Askins,
• Spain is the leading producer of olives and the world’s leading producer of olive oil.
• Extra virgin olive oil is the strongest olive flavor of the four varieties of olive oil. Best used for drizzling, salad dressings, marinades, sauces, stews, soups.
• Virgin olive oil shares extra virgin olive oil’s strong flavor, [...]
By Stacey Delo, MarketWatch
When cooking at home, chef Michael Chiarello enjoys wild-fennel olive oil drizzled over roasted quail. He makes the fennel oil from scratch, warming a cup of olive oil with a quarter cup of fennel, then straining the mixture through a coffee filter.
Mr. Chiarello is the host of the Food Network show “Easy [...]
From Anadolu News Agency (aa), Izmir
The rise of olive oil prices in recent years, quotas on tobacco production and incentives for olive growers have fostered a renewed interest in olive growing. The number of olive tree saplings ordered for the next season has already reached 54 million.
It is estimated that if Turkey, which has 150 [...]
La production d’olives lors de cette année devrait atteindre les 750.000 tonnes, soit une augmentation de 14 pc en comparaison avec la moyenne des cinq dernières années, a indiqué, mardi à Rabat, le ministre de l’Agriculture, du développement rural et des pêches maritimes, M. Mohand Laenser.
Répondant à une question d’actualité à la Chambre des Conseillers, [...]
L’Alliance de la culture & de la gourmandise autour de l’Olive Noire de Nyons
La Fête de l’Olive Piquée célébrera dignement cette primeur des olives noires le samedi 16 décembre prochain à Nyons.
La philosophie de cette manifestation est d’honorer un joyau de notre terroir, une perle noire aux arômes subtils qui enchante les papilles et inspire [...]
By Manuel Meyer
Jaen, Spain The olive tree is both loved and respected In many Mediterranean countries, but in the Spanish Andalusian region of Jaen, it is held in such esteem as to be almost holy.
The olive plays a major role in this part of southern Spain. The region has around 60 million trees, making [...]
Nearly 300 olive trees were donated and planted on Sunday 12 November by ST Microelectronics and its employees at the Kennedy Grove, Salina Bay, to support the local 34U afforestation campaign.
Every year, ST contributes hundreds of trees to local communities for groves, playing-fields and schools. To date, around 11,000 trees have been donated, reinforcing the [...]
Sur un parc de plus de 600 huileries dont dispose la wilaya de Tizi Ouzou, seules quelques unités ont ouvert leurs portes pour cette campagne de trituration des olives, faute de «grains à se mettre sous la meule», tant la récolte oléicole de cette année s’annonce peu prometteuse, pour cause des effets conjugués de la [...]
Par Dhaou Maatoug,
Depuis le début du mois en cours, la ville de Zarzis, surnommée capitale de l’olivier, vit au rythme de la campagne oléicole. Une production de 6.000 tonnes d’olives est prévue cette saison, soit un peu plus que l’année précédente. Les huileries connaissent ainsi une activité intense.
The growing interest in quality olive oil has resulted in a boom in farm tourism with more than two million people a year now visiting oil mills to buy their oil straight from the source.
According to the Italian olive oil producers’ consortium Unaprol, olive oil tourism this year will generate more than 1.8 billion euros [...]
Florence, Nov. 20 - The Agriculture Ministry has issued a decree (eventually published on the Italian Official Journal) granting the ‘Dop’ certification (denomination of protected origin) to the extra virgin olive oil produced in the hills around Florence.
By Gary Klien,
The McEvoy Ranch is always finding new ways to squeeze money from olives.
This holiday season, the Northern Marin olive-oil producer is launching a new line of olive-oil based body products called “Verde.” The line includes body lotion, hand cream and a body scrub made from the same 100-percent organic oil the ranch sells [...]
Fresno State Orchards Estate Reserve Olive Oil – California State University, Fresno’s very first pressing – won a bronze medal at the prestigious San Diego Bay Wine and Food Festival.
Harvested and processed a year ago and bottled in March, the university’s olive oil joins Fresno State wines as an award-winning, student-produced agricultural product recognized in [...]
Aimed at popularising olive oil in food preparations
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan State Agricultural Marketing Board on Saturday signed a tripartite agreement with two Israeli companies to promote cultivation of olive trees in the desert State.
State Agriculture Minister Prabhulal Saini said olive would be cultivated on 210 hectares of Government land at 10 different locations — which [...]
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