By Ron Brown,
With Southern Oregon establishing it’s reputation for growing grapes, another warm climate crop is starting to take root.
More than 130 acres between Jacksonville and Medford are the beginning of what some hope will be an olive oil industry in the Rogue Valley.
Olive tree Grower Jeff Hoyal has planted more than 86,000 Greek [...]
As California’s olive oil industry expands and refines, designations of various grades of oil are becoming more distinct and more identifiable.
Consumers will face challenges as they learn to differentiate between extra virgin (high-quality) and oil pressed from the pomace of cull olives. All of the oil is expected to move through one market level or [...]
A new trend is changing the olive industry in the north state, now it’s all about the oil olives and the expensive liquid gold they produce.
In the olive city, there’s a new boom surrounding the fruit, Vice President of Crane Mills Brian Crane says, “The olive oil industry is what wine was decades ago.”
Several olive [...]
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 tremendously [...]
I started with badly scuffed hardwood floors. From years of rolling office chairs back and forth, first the typewriter on the desk, then the computer. The wood had worn down to its bare, raw wood condition. Without sanding and staining the old 1950s hardwood floors, I took a dampened sponge mop, spilled a half cup [...]
If you find yourself fishing for happiness, maybe it’s time to look to the obvious. A new study performed at the University of California-San Francisco shows the omega-3 healthy fats abundant in cold-water fatty fish such as salmon, anchovies, sardines and mackerel can help prevent depression in heart patients.
The UCSF study of nearly 1,000 patients [...]
The administrator for failed agribusiness giant Timbercorp has been given approval by the Victorian Supreme Court to apply to wind up the company’s olive and almond schemes.
KordaMentha wants to end the schemes to make it easier to sell the 13 almond projects and 11 olive groves in northern Victoria.
Spokesman Michael Smith says a number of [...]
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 Rob Rogers,
Photo Frankie Frost,
Publishing heiress Nan McEvoy hopes a once-controversial 98-foot-tall windmill on her northern Marin ranch will become an inspiration for farmers and others interested in leaving fossil fuels behind.
“I know there is nothing my mother is prouder of,” said Nion McEvoy, who spoke on his mother’s behalf during a dedication ceremony at [...]
Presentation and Degustation of /lambda/ an exclusive, luxurious and award winning Extra Virgin Olive Oil
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Cooking enthusiasts and olive oil aficionados are invited to join food professionals from around the world June 21-23 at UC Davis for an international conference exploring the best production practices, sensory qualities and culinary possibilities for the highest quality extra virgin olive oil.
“Beyond Extra Virgin,” the largest conference on olive-oil excellence ever held in North [...]
The waste obtained from olive during the oil extraction process can be used to eliminate heavy metals from sewage or waste waters of productive activities.
Olive pits, pomace and remains (from olive tree pruning) present an outstanding capacity to retain the lead present in this water, which confirms their capacity as biosorbents for their application in [...]
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 [...]
Presentation of the 2009 edition of Olio Capitale, an Italian event exclusively dedicated to Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
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Britons with a taste for Mediterranean-style cooking are spending record amounts on olive oil.
Sales have topped £150million a year for the first time. That is double the amount sold eight years ago and significantly more than the £90million spent on vegetable oil.
Growing evidence of the health benefits of a Mediterranean diet is behind the trend. [...]
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