Add olives to a frozen pizza before it goes in, not after, and pat them dry first. That is the whole answer for most people. The longer version is worth knowing, because a frozen pizza is a very different cooking problem from a fresh one: the base is already par-baked, the bake is short and hot, and every extra topping…
Read the story →A fruitless olive tree gives you the silver canopy without the staining fruit drop. Which varieties are truly fruitless, and how to grow one…
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, 2026Indoor olive tree care comes down to strong light, a cool winter rest and careful watering. How to keep one thriving inside, and why most fail.
September 22, 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…
Four ways to cure olives at home — water, brine, lye and dry salt — with the timings, the safety…
Spain once ran the world's only olive oil futures exchange, in Jaén. It never found the liquidity it needed, and…
The olive reached California with Spanish missionaries, survived a century of false starts, invented an entirely American style of black…
A raw olive is inedible. Everything you taste in a table olive — texture, colour, saltiness, sharpness — was decided…
Quand un comté californien rogne discrètement les taxes de voirie d'un producteur, il soutient une mutation plus vaste : la survie…
What is the difference among "Virgin", "Extra virgin", "Fine" and "refined" olive oil? Will olive oil loses its nutritional value…
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.”
