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Olive, My Love How to cure an olive fetish. by Ashlea Halpern, I never met an olive I didn’t like. Whether they’re wrinkly and chewy with a bitter aftertaste or marble-smooth and sopping with brine, I love tugging them off a toothpick with my teeth, squeezing them between my lips and nibbling the pit like […]

Olive oil contains antioxidants called phenols. The amount of phenols varies depending on how the oil is produced. Virgin and extra virgin oils are higher in these phenols than more refined light olive oils. According to a new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine, all olive oil raises HDL (“good”) cholesterol slightly, but the […]

From “Coffee Cakes: Simple, Sweet, and Savory” by Lou Seibert Pappas (Chronicle Books).

By Ed Blonz, Ph.D. Q: We all know how healthful extra virgin olive oil is for us. Do we get the same health benefit from eating olives? A: Olives are quite bitter coming off the tree. When used as eating olives, they need to undergo a curing process to remove this bitterness. It usually involves […]