An olive, a pickled guindilla pepper and an anchovy, threaded on a cocktail stick. That is the entire Gilda, and it is arguably the most perfectly balanced thing anyone has ever done with a table olive. It takes under a minute to assemble, requires no cooking at all, and gets ruined by almost every attempt to improve it. San Sebastián…
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October 1, 2026A fruitless olive tree gives you the silver canopy without the staining fruit drop. Which varieties are truly fruitless, and how to grow one well.
September 28, 2026Olive oil for dogs is safe in small amounts, but it is pure fat. How much by weight, which benefits hold up, and when it can do more harm than…
September 25, 2026Straight off the tree, an olive is inedible — bitter enough to make you wince. Curing is how we fix that, and you can do it at home…
Kalamata are ripened and brine-cured. Tinned black olives are picked green and oxidised. Why one tastes of wine and the other of almost nothing.
An olive that is delicious from the jar can wreck a dish, because heat does three things to it: it drives out salt, it softens the flesh, and…
In a village in Crete stands an olive tree up to 4,000 years old — still making olives. A timeline of everything it has outlived, and the one…
Long before it was a food, the olive was a medicine chest — and its bitter leaf is now a…
For years California's olive oil output has climbed, and boosters love to say it will overtake France. The growth is…
A forgiving Provençal-style tart: sweet slow-cooked onions, salty olives and tangy goat's cheese on crisp puff pastry. Cheap, quick to…
Corning, en Californie, se surnomme « Olive City » à juste titre — et son festival de l’olive, de longue date, montre…
Olive oil rewards tasting every bit as much as wine — origin, variety and craft all show up on the…
Olive oil has conditioned Mediterranean hair for thousands of years, and it genuinely works — as a deep-conditioning oil, with…
Its beauty, its origins, its history: the varieties, the fields, the pictures.
“What does lavender have to do with olives? Well, I’m glad you asked. I just love both, and to me they’re the perfect match.”
