By Brian Clark Howard,
Olive oil has many valuable uses beyond cooking, from personal care to home improvement, natural remedies and beyond. Also see money-saving uses for ketchup, vinegar and vodka.
Olive oil is more than a cartoon character, historic symbol of peace and glory or food staple of the much-vaunted Mediterranean diet. It is actually [...]
By Brian Lockhart,
The state’s strict new olive oil standards have left a bad taste in the mouth of one New York food importer who is arguing in court the rules are unfair, flaunt federal law and are hurting business.
Dennis Kangadis, vice president of New York-based Kangadis Food Inc., also known as The Gourmet Factory, has [...]
By Andrew Weil,
Q: I understand that a magazine reported that a lot of the olive oil from Italy is adulterated with lesser oils and described ongoing fraud in the olive oil business. Do you have any information about this?
A: I have read the article you mention, it reports that fraud remains a major problem in [...]
Going green can mean picking the right olive oil and one expert on the oil says California’s premium olive oils are often worth the extra money.
University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisor Paul Vossen, an olive oil expert, says the state’s olive oil has a promising future if word of its many benefits is effectively [...]
Olive oil is widely known for providing a wide range of health benefits, including but not limited to preventing skin cancer, support with weight loss, preventing ear aches and infections, softening calluses, preventing heart attack and stroke, relieving irritated skin around the eyes, healing frostbite, flattening wrinkles, strengthening weak fingernails, reducing scarring, treating indigestion, healing [...]
By Zainab Al-Arabi,
While the seasonal olive tree harvesting isn’t over yet in the Gebel region, (depending on the gatherers timetable), the rush for olive oil this year is incredible. Everybody wants it. Even those who don’t like the taste of olive oil in cooking are ready to accept it this year.
With the price of [...]
From Tony Stallone,
What makes a good olive oil? What is the difference between an extra virgin olive oil, 100 percent pure olive oil and a simple virgin olive oil? How should I store my olive oil? How long does it keep? What should I use it for?
Here are the answers: A good olive oil [...]
North Vancouver giftware innovator Mum’s Creations has introduced a new Olive Dipper to its product line.
The metal utensil is coiled to act as a small sieve for removing olives from jars.
The dipper includes the signature design of a coiled handle topped with a glass bead.
The beaded finish comes in a wide assortment of shades and [...]
“Dr. Susan Lark, a popular Internet physician, promotes squalane – an ingredient found in shark liver oil – for its ability to help skin “maintain its moisture and elasticity.” But squalane can be obtained from a much more abundant source: olives.
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The Kingdom’s olive production is expected to drop by 40 per cent this season, yielding some 124,800 tonnes, preliminary Agriculture Ministry estimates indicate.
Known for its “alternate bearing habit”, under which olive production peaks in alternate years, this season’s produce was expected to yield more than last year, when the country harvested around 243,500 tonnes of [...]
By David Penner,
It’s branches crowned Julius Caesar as he marched into Rome.
It seeped into the bones of saints through their sarcophaguses.
Ancient Olympians rubbed it into their skin.
And today, world-class chefs and weekend kitchen commanders, like myself, use it every day.
What is this highly prized treasure of the culinary world?
It’s the olive, and more importantly, the [...]
L’oléiculture jouit d’une place stratégique dans l’agriculture avec une superficie de 1,6 millions d’hectares soit 30% des terres agricoles et 56 millions de pieds d’oliviers.
La production d’olives à huile est tributaire des conditions climatiques et reste une culture traditionnelle.
Situation nationale :
L’activité compte près de 1 440 huileries et occupe 250 000 oléiculteurs. La production est [...]
Sedat Kirt,
Shocked by the destruction of a forest of ancient olive trees amid the environmental degradation of a coal mine, a young businessman from Datça has initiated an extraordinary eco-project.
Building engineer Timur Kabaklarlı, 32, now owns 1,500 olive trees after seeing the centuries-old trees being cut for coal mining. During a business trip to Bodrum [...]
By Mark Logan,
The Mediterranean diet, which includes copious amounts of olive oil, is well known for its health benefits but that is not why retired physician John Milla, and his wife Lorraine, took to planting olive trees at Abilene Grove 13 years ago.
An avid tree planter, Mr Milla was initially interested in the investment opportunities [...]
Do you like olives? Either the black or green variety? Then eating seven a day could help to keep the doctor away, say health experts.
They say it does not matter how the olive is prepared or whether it is green or black, it contains essential amino acids, minerals and vitamins, fundamental to the Mediterranean diet.
Eating [...]
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