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Cooking Time: 10 minutes  

These highly savory Marinated olives are perfect as a starter or snack.        

Recipe by Kate Murdoch, Photo by Oliver Ford,

Recipe by Valli Little, Photography by Mark Roper,

Recipe by Gemma Luongo, Photography by Mark O’Meara Preparation Time: 20 minutes Cooking Time: 40 minutes

Chef Jean Paul Desmaison of La Cofradia restaurant in Coral Gables, Fla. has created this Sauteed Apple Crisp for the North American Olive Oil Association. Extra-virgin olive oil replaces the butter, offering a mellow, concentrated sweetness to the glazed apples. Sugar, a hint of cinnamon and a handful of raisins complete the apple mixture. Finally, [...]

All olives are not created equal when it comes to martinis. A few guidelines: The olive doesn’t flavor the liquor so much as the liquor flavors the olive. If you want olive flavor in the drink, make it dirty by adding olive brine or use cracked olives. Use milder olives in gin martinis so they [...]

By Johann Fleck, Olive oil is the crowning glory for grilled seafood, a salad, over Feta cheese or other sheep’s milk cheese. It rounds out pasta dishes and vegetables, and is used to sauté and fry. There is hardly a Mediterranean dish that does not include olive oil in the recipe. As a result of [...]

Recipe by Valli Little, Photography by Ian Wallace, Ingredients (serves 4)

Black Oil Cured Olives Salt-cured olives are flavorful, but somewhat bitter. Staunch olive fans love them. It is best to make these in small batches using Mission black olives as they will not keep more than a month. click here for this recipe Green Cured Olives These water-cured olives are flavored with lemon, oregano, wine [...]

Recipe by Michelle Southan, Photography by Steve Brown, Toasted sandwiches have never looked so good … or tasted so terrific! Preparation Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time : 20 minutes

By Julia Cameron, Photo Peter Monsees, This holiday season, your goal to keep a healthful diet and lifestyle might be forgotten easily when the temptation from cookies and cakes wields more power than the call of your treadmill. But you can have your cake and eat it too, said Lisa A. Sheldon, a nutritionist and [...]

Recipe by Valli Little, Photography by Geoff Lung,

Recipe by Michelle Southan, Photography by Ben Dearnley, Preparation Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time ; 25 minutes