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About 2,000 visitors gathered behind the Old Mission San Jose Museum amid a backdrop of historic trees on Saturday, for Mission San Jose’s sixth annual Olive Festival. Although the crowd this year was smaller than previous festivals, co-organizer Bob Tavares said the day went very well. “As always the vendors were very popular, and the [...]

By Tony Bridges, Don Mueller has spent eight years raising an olive grove from a sandy, secluded piece of ground in the Panhandle’s Jackson County. That’s 220 trees planted, irrigated and nursed through summer grasshopper invasions and winter cold spells, with only what help he could cajole from friends and in spite of doubts that [...]

Mission San Jose Chamber of Commerce’s Olive Festival will return for its sixth annual run today (Oct. 6). The event, always on the first Saturday of October, will take place behind the historic Old Mission San Jose Museum starting at 10 a.m. In addition to food and crafts where olives are the featured ingredient, there [...]

By Joan Leotta, In the past 20 years, olive oil has become more popular in American kitchens for its health benefits and its simply incredible taste, even though the silken “juice” of the olive costs more than other vegetable oils. In fact, many California olive oil producers call it liquid gold. For example, a small [...]

Want to taste the world’s most expensive olive oil? You can at Quattro in the Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley, 2050 University Ave. in East Palo Alto, CA. Made in Tuscany, Manni organic extra virgin olive oil can be found at only 25 other restaurants around the world. Founder Armando Manni carefully selects only establishments [...]

By Lisa Shames, While the mention of the word “oil” can often bring about heated debates on rising prices and the war in Iraq, that’s not the case at Old Town Oil, which specializes in 100-percent extra virgin olive oils and aged balsamic vinegars. This sliver of a store, located in the heart of Old [...]

A very complete and interesting article about Californian Olive Oil can be found here with a lot of information, history, comments and prices.

UC Davis Olive Oil, Yolo County Agriculture and Marketing Initiative & Slow Food Yolo present a Pre-Harvest Tour and Feast at the Historic Wolfskill Ranch in Winters October 13, 2007 10:30 am Location: 4334 Putah Creek Road, Winters, CA Program here (pdf) Tickets available online here

Thanks Dan for the infos ;o) By Bill Lindelof, The fruit of Yolo County olive trees owned by UC Davis and planted nearly 150 years ago by one of Northern California’s early pioneers is finding new customers. John R. Wolfskill, who worked for $100 a year when he came to California in the 1830s, planted [...]

By Marilyn Campbell, California is striking oil — olive oil that is. Revelations about the health benefits of olive oil have led to a steady increase in American olive oil consumption. According to the California Olive Oil Council, sales of U.S. produced olive oil has increased 20 percent each year for the last five years. [...]

Article By Kylie Mendonca, Photo by Steve E. Miller, From Napa to Santa Barbara, California wines have developed as one of the state’s most coveted agricultural products. But there’s more to the fruits of the Golden State than just grapes. People in the know indulge in olives. California now produces some of the finest olives [...]

On Thursday, the East Coast Olive Oil Corporation celebrated its grand opening at Rome’s Griffiss Park. The company, originally based in Utica, is part of the number one private label olive oil supplier in the world. A new 185-square foot facility is home to more than 150 employees and that number is expected to increase. [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

By A. Craig Copetas, Beneath the precious fruit of an olive tree planted in 1776 outside the mountain hamlet of Sambuca di Sicilia, Giovanni Di Bennardo mops summer dust from his brow and explains how he’ll make it to America. “I will only go when I’m a rich man,” said the 29-year-old manager of Di [...]