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Israeli businessmen see Maharashtra as a destination for olive farming and want nearly 2,000 hectares of wasteland for starting up olive farming in the Maharashtra. A delegation of businessmen led by Israeli consul general (commercial) Daniel Zohar Zoshine met state revenue minister Narayan Rane and made a request to provide nearly 2,000 hectares of wasteland [...]

Recipe by Sophia Young, Photography by Andrew Lehmann,

Do you want to eat and live healthy? Many says olive oil, the cooking oil with the highest level of monounsaturated fatty acids, is the right product to ensure your healthy life. Here is all you need to know about olive oil. Olive oil is used abundantly in cooking, baking and marinating throughout the Mediterranean [...]

By Rasheeda Bhagat, Can Indian food be cooked in olive oil? When this question was posed to celebrated Indian chef Sanjeev Kapur at a promotion campaign for olive oil and table olives organised by the International Olive Council in Delhi on Thursday, his reply was simple. “Of course it can, that’s a no brainer”. Indian [...]

“Un aïeul pour le planter, un père pour le tailler et toute une descendance pour récolter…”. La légende dit que l’olivier est immortel. Il est vrai que des pousses reconstituent l’arbre quand le tronc est détruit, lui donnant une longévité exceptionnelle: jusqu’à 5000 ans! L’olivier appartient à la famille des oléacées, comme le frêne ou [...]

By Elisabeth Kalfsbeek, While it is produced in Europe and South America as a byproduct of wine grapes, grapeseed oil is fast becoming California’s hot new commodity for retailers and restaurateurs alike. “The market has grown dramatically,” said Matthieu Kohlneyer of La Tourangelle, an artisan producer of specialty and organic oils, in Woodland. “A lot [...]

Company has signed a marketing and distribution deal with Italy-based Salov, plans to launch Italian brand olive oil ‘Filipo Berio´ in other metros and tier II cities. FMCG company R R Oomerbhoy eyes to grab 15% of the total domestic market of olive oil by next year, managing director of RRO Riyad R Oomerbhoy said [...]

In Hasbaya, an Olive Press owner, Rashid Zoueihed developed a new way to use the Olive skin and kernels after pressing the oil out. Pressing these rests into a small machine to make Cylinders 25 cm long and 15 cm radius, weighing each 1200 g, passing into this machine makes these natural olive elements glued [...]

By Sudhin Thanawala, MARTINEZ, Calif.—Later this fall, Tom Powers will harvest his olives and press them into his Alhambra Valley brand authentic extra virgin olive oil with a distinctive peppery finish. “This is really high quality stuff,” says Powers, whose two varieties of Tuscan olives grow amid the dry, rolling hills of Contra Costa County, [...]

5 Percent of Yellingbo Gold Olive Oil Revenue from Gourmet Retailer ChefShop.com to Support Orphans of the 2004 Tsunami ChefShop.com, a premier online gourmet food retailer, announces its support of The Jasmine Foundation by contributing 5 percent of Yellingbo Gold olive oil revenues to the foundation. The Jasmine Foundation provides relief to orphans of the [...]

A deli line from a supermarket brand of Australian olive oil won a champion’s medal at last week’s Sydney Royal Fine Food competition. Cobram Estate, from the Murray region, was named a champion for its varietal extra virgin olive oil. There were tears of joy at its Victorian headquarters. The results come after a rough [...]

By Henrie Geyser, Sometimes it’s an absolute treat to come home from another long painful day at the salt mines, stop on the way for a bottle of wine and a fresh loaf of bread and then put something quick and simple together for dinner. My wife and I lead fairly hectic, often separate, lives [...]

La première unité des dix fermes plantées en oliviers utilisant les dernières technologies devrait voir le jour ce mois-ci à Beni Mellal. Les 10 fermes de 1000 hectares d’oliviers chacune s’étendent sur les régions de Haouz, Tensift, Tadla et Mekhnès. Avec une première récolte prévue pour 2010, la majorité de la production d’huile d’olive sera [...]

Recipe by Sarah Hobbs, Photography by Ben Dearnley, Preparation Time: 20 minutes Cooking Time: 5 minutes