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By Jolene Ketzenberger,
Olive oil just isn’t exotic anymore. Though it trumped vegetable oil as the U.S. consumer’s cooking oil of choice nearly five years ago, today’s oil options have expanded far beyond corn, canola and even extra-virgin olive oil.
For healthfulness and versatility, says Indianapolis gourmet shop owner Jack Stearns, grapeseed oil is hard to [...]

August 25th, 2007
10:00am - 5:00pm
Downtown Paso Robles City Park
www.pasoolivefestival.com
 
* Free Olive Oil and Olive product sampling
* Producers from all over California
* Olive Oil Tasting lead by the California Olive Oil Council
* Culinary Row serving great food
* Wine & Beer Tasting
* Open Olive Dish Cooking Contest
* Free Olive Oil Ice Cream
For more information call (805)-238-4103
835 12th [...]

It’s not always the label on the wine bottle that attracts admiring attention at dinner parties.
Sometimes it’s on the one containing green-gold extra-virgin olive oil.
In the past 7 years there has been a small revolution in the winelands that has nothing to do with grapes. It gathered momentum when Italy’s Giulio Bertrand bought Somerset West’s [...]

If good growing weather continues and there’s enough irrigation water, the Central Valley olive crop could be more than six times larger than last year’s.
California’s olive crop this year will produce about 112,000 tons, growers estimate.
Last year the trees yielded a meager 16,800 tons.
However, water is becoming an issue in olive groves south of the [...]

Tuscany’s 12 hills to become centre of biomass production - Chianti could become a production centre for renewable biomass energy thanks to an abundance of vegetable by-products from the cultivation of olives and grapes, in addition to livestock and wood farming.
The University of Florence already has an experimental project in place to study eventual uses [...]

Drought has hindered olive production in Balýkesir. Chamber of Agriculture Chairman Sami Sözat requested that olive producers receive drought support, saying that the chamber of agriculture in Balýkesir will apply to the prime minister’s office and ministry of agriculture for the aid.
Sözat considered the exclusion of olive producers from drought support unfortunate, since producers of [...]

La culture du canola connaît une croissance depuis une dizaine d’années sur les terres agricoles de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue. Au total dans la région, une cinquantaine de producteurs, dont une quarantaine situés au Témiscamingue, font pousser cette plante aux fleurs d’un jaune éclatant.
Les grains récoltés sont transformés en Ontario. “C’est vendu aux meuneries. Ils en extraient l’huile [...]

By the Barkeep,

This appetizer is a quick, easy and a great way to ’spice’ up your cocktail party. These olives are great with Vodka or Gin Martinis. Instead of adding olives to the drink, serve these along side.
To Make:

2 Cups Green or Black Pitted Olives (not canned ones, get the fancy imported olives. We [...]

L’Espagne, soutenue par l’Italie, la France et la Grèce, a informé les ministres de l’Agriculture de l’UE, réunis le 16 juillet à Bruxelles, de son initiative visant à promouvoir le régime méditerranéen dans la liste du patrimoine humanitaire de l’Unesco.
Le commissaire en charge de la santé, Markos Kyprianou, a souligné que cette initiative était conforme [...]

By Zoe Williams,
Sales of extra-virgin olive oil hit a record £71m last year, which means it now accounts for more than 30% - the largest share - of the UK oil market. These figures have led some people to conclude that we’re adopting “a healthier, Mediterranean diet”.
There are as many things wrong with that [...]

Olove natural olive snacks in stand-up foil bags are a healthy alternative to crisps that will be available in a similar range of flavours.
The concept, developed over four years in Barcelona, won the Fresh Ideas award at the 2007 London IFE and is suitable for fine bars and pubs and healthy vending.
Olove offers Black Aragon [...]

By Carolyn O’Neil,
If you enjoy a drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil on a crisp green salad or can’t wait to savor a salmon steak hot off the grill, then you are part of a happy and healthy nationwide nutrition trend. According to results of the 2007 Food & Health Survey recently released by the International [...]

By Martyn McLaughlin,
It is revered by chefs as the finest olive oil money can buy, and now Britain’s consumers are choosing to drizzle with the extra virgin variety in record numbers.
Sales of the oil reached an all-time high £71 million in the UK last year as Britons adopted a healthier Mediterranean diet.
Despite its high price, [...]

By Kerry Coleman,
In 1820, a grove of olive trees was planted in Cranebrook by the wife of infamous convict Samuel Terry.
Last week, Penrith council chopped down all of the nearly 200-year-old heritage-listed trees.
Elderly Cranebrook resident Shirley Tesoriero was very fond of the trees that sat off Soling Crescent, near Boundary Road.
“I’d read about them in [...]

Here is a very complete article by Peggy Trowbridge Filippone, on Olives and Olive Oil which includes history, information on olive varieties, and usage tips.
Part 1: The only difference between green olives and black olives is ripeness
Long a symbol of peace, the olive branch brings us a marvelous, healthy fruit. Get up to date on [...]

By Savvy_lover,
The oleic acid found in olives and virgin olive oil can make the difference between a complexion that looks and feels like old shoe leather - and one that looks like a rose petal. Oleic acid actually soaks through the membranes of skin cells plumping them up, which then makes fine lines and wrinkles [...]

By Bev Bennett,
Different olive oils complement dishes.
But when you’re reaching for oil to use in a salad dressing or for cooking, color isn’t the most important consideration.
Instead you want oil that’s appropriate to your dish, says Alessio Carli, an olive oil and wine maker for Pietra Santa winery near Monterey Bay in California.
He suggests treating [...]

By Sheila Keating,
A firm, fruity olive is a beautiful thing, so why is it so hard to find? Purity of flavour is what olive-lovers crave, but frequently what is on offer is a plethora of antiseptic-tasting, flabby specimens, stuffed with synthetic pastes, or drenched with incongruous marinades.
How do green and black olives differ?
Green olives are [...]

World olive oil production is likely to grow at least 10 per cent in the coming crop year, after an already strong year in 2006/07, the International Olive Council (IOC) said.
In the current crop year, which ends on Sept 30, output could reach 3.0 million tonnes, up from 2.6 million tonnes the year before.
For 2007/08 [...]

A global body representing olive producers based in Madrid said yesterday it planned to launch marketing campaigns in China and India to promote the consumption of olive oil in the two emerging markets.
The International Olive Council will launch the promotional campaign in India in September and in China next year, its president Habib Essid told [...]

An olive grower and processor from the New South Wales north coast has received a Churchill Fellowship to travel to Sicily and southern Italy.
Alan Hodges will spend five weeks studying a water recycling process being pioneered in Sicilian factories as well as new green olive varieties.
Mr Hodges says he believes Australia is yet to perfect [...]

Recipe by Gary Mehigan,
Photography by Louise Lister,

Ingredients (serves 4)
* 1/4 cup olive oil
* 4 lamb backstraps
* 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
* 2 lemons, rind finely grated
* 1 cup pitted kalamata olives, roughly chopped
* 1/2 cup flat-leaf parsley leaves, finely chopped
Method

Preheat oven to 120°C. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a non-stick frying pan over medium-high heat. [...]

U.S. scientists have developed immunization methods that can offer long-term protection against Helicobacter pylori infections.
University of California-Davis researchers said the new methods might also contribute to a possible ulcer vaccine.
H. pylori is a bacterium colonizing the digestive tract of 50 percent of the world’s population. Infection can lead to chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer disease and [...]

Aspectrics produced an application note to describe the ability of its MultiComponent™ 2750 EP-NIR analyzer to achieve unequivocal quantification of corn, canola and olive oils.
Coupled to an external Aspectrics halogen NIR source and a 2mm pathlength process transmission multimode fiber probe, the analyzer provides quantification of the percentage volume of corn, canola and olive oils [...]

Dans le cadre du repeuplement et du rajeunissement de l’oliveraie, une enveloppe de 500 millions de dinars vient d’être allouée au secteur faisant, ces derniers temps, l’objet d’un intérêt particulier des pouvoirs publics qui mettent désormais le paquet sur l’oléiculture source de devises fortes, pour de nombreux pays, nos voisins des deux rives surtout.
Des oliveraies [...]