Yes. Olives have grown in Mexico since the 1520s, today mainly in Baja California. Where they grow, how Mexicans use olive oil, and dishes with olives.
Read the story →Olive oil in coffee went mainstream with Starbucks Oleato. How to make it, what it tastes like, which oil to use, and what the…
October 13, 2026Olive oil shots are trending, but a spoonful with food does the same job. What one tablespoon contains, what the studies found, and the side effects.
October 10, 2026The best olive tree fertilizer is mostly nitrogen, given in spring and in modest amounts. What the groves use, and the signs you have overdone it.
October 7, 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…
The biggest table olive in the world, Bella di Cerignola is a giant green Puglian beauty — mild, meaty and…
The heel of Italy's own olive, Ogliarola Salentina gives the golden-green oil of Salento — herbal, almondy, and one of…
The queen of Irpinia's hills, Ravece gives an unmistakable oil that smells of green tomato — bitter, spicy and built…
A Calabrian rarity grown on barely a hundred square kilometres of Ionian coast, Grossa di Gerace gives a fruity, almond-and-artichoke…
Calabria's own Ottobratica gives a fragrant, remarkably stable oil — high in polyphenols, picked in October, and the backbone of…
In ancient Athens, uprooting a sacred olive tree could cost you exile — or your life. Solon wrote the olive…
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.”
