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By Christine Pirovolakis, Tassos Golemis can be found every evening tending to his olive grove in the fertile valley of the Taygetos mountain where the ancient Spartans once hunted and trained. For the first time, Golemis, together with his fellow olive-oil producers in the Mani peninsula, soft-pressed the region’s ripened olives of the Koroneiki variety [...]

By Deven Black & Jill Rovitzy Black, La Boqueria in Spain is a bustling open-air marketplace where shoppers can find cheese, fish, meats and other delicacies. La Boqueria in Nyack feels like an open-air marketplace where shoppers can find cheese, fish, meats and other delicacies. “We have a roof and walls, but with this open [...]

By Dave Friedlos, Olive oil producer Minerva is using software to extract information from its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system reports to boost business performance. The 100-year-old company translates information and data into spreadsheets and end user reports without the need for significant IT skills or resources. It also handles account reconciliation, condensing information such [...]

Olive oil prices may drop in coming months as Spain, the world’s biggest producer, is likely to turn out one of its largest harvests, according to Sos Cuetara SA, the largest bottler. Spanish refineries will press 1.27 million tonnes of olive oil this year, Sos Cuetara chairman Jesus Salazar said yesterday. That output is 41 [...]

By Michael McCarthy, In one of the most remarkable signs yet of the advance of global warming, Britain’s first olive grove has been planted in Devon. Temperatures have risen so far in recent years that it is now considered possible to grow the iconic fruit of the Mediterranean countries commercially in southern England.More…

More than 200 US food service, supermarket and hospitality professionals were treated to samples of Greek olive oil from the Peloponnese, Crete and Lesvos along with Grecian wines and delicacies in a tourism development-funded ministry event held at the Greek embassy here last week.

By Cynthia Busuttil, Organic farming might be a new concept for Malta but for Siggiewi born and bred farmer Joseph Borg it is something he has been practising for over two decades. Although coming from a family of farmers, Mr Borg distanced himself from the land and held different jobs before deciding to return to [...]

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 [...]

Taste of Crete will be one of the exhibitors for a promotion of Greek Olive Oils at the Greek Embassy on June 15, 2006. Attendees will have the opportunity to sample their award winning extra virgin olive oil. It just won the Gold in the 2006 International Olive Oils of the World Competition. Taste of [...]

By Raphael Ermano, With an annual production of 400,000 tonnes, Greece is the world’s third largest producer of olive oil not that consumers ever realise, given the country’s habit of selling the bulk of its exports to Italian retailers, who treat and package the product under their own labels.

Olives are eaten year round, but somehow they epitomise Mediter- ranean tastes redolent of summer warmth and sun. I love both green and black olives, but I confess that black ones are my favourites and of those I like Kalamata olives best.The superb taste of their juicy flesh makes them superior to all the others. [...]

Massimo Gargano, 43, a member of the national board of Coldiretti (national association of farmers) is the new president of Unaprol, the largest and most representative consortium of olive growers at a European and world level.

The Umbria region is the centre of the world’s attention for three days for extra virgin olive oil. From June 2 to 4, 16 countries will showcase the best they’ve got in terms of olive oil production, with 200 Italian and foreign labels participating in “Exolea”, a fair taking place in Foligno, Spello, Montefalco, Trevi, [...]