Olive, My Love How to cure an olive fetish. by Ashlea Halpern, I never met an olive I didn’t like. Whether they’re wrinkly and chewy with a bitter aftertaste or marble-smooth and sopping with brine, I love tugging them off a toothpick with my teeth, squeezing them between my lips and nibbling the pit like [...]
Olive oil is turning up in a variety of beauty products. A team of testers wanted to know if it was better as an additive or alone. Ancient Hebrews used olive oil to light their menorahs. Athenians valued it more than water. The Catholic Church uses it in its sacraments. And you thought it was [...]
Arbre sacré, vénéré dans toute la Provence, peint par Cézanne et Van Gogh, chanté et loué par Mistral et Giono, l’olivier est un des éléments les plus typiques du paysage et de la culture provencale.Symbole de paix et de sagesse, de persévérance (il resiste à tout ou presque, il peut pousser sur un sol aride, [...]
From Pat Veretto, Here's a tip: I heard that American Airlines saved $40,000.00 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class. One olive. $40,000.00 Picture it in your mind.
It’s been a staple of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine for thousands of years because, as Mark Hix finds, there’s no end to what you can do with an olive No one is sure where the olive tree originated, but it has been grown all over the Middle East and Mediterranean since time immemorial. More [...]
Above all things pickled, the olive BY Amy Atkins Green: the color of re-birth, freedom, celebration and … pickled items. Pickling is done when a raw food is put in an acid (vinegar) or a citrus juice or soaked in brine solution. Years ago, pickling was used to keep foods from spoiling during long sea [...]
By Louise Bettison LEARNING to distinguish between table and oil olive trees should be compulsory for anyone wanting to establish an olive farm, according to grower Donald Mackenzie.
Sour to bitter, piquant to sweet, the tangy taste of olives are harvested in September but available year round to make a zesty addition to salads, meat and poultry dishes and, of course, pizza. Olives cannot be eaten right off of the tree; they require special processing to reduce their intrinsic bitterness. These processing methods [...]
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