Yes. You can pop popcorn in olive oil on the stovetop, and it works better than the internet gives it credit for. The objection you will read everywhere is that olive oil's smoke point is too low for popping. That objection is based on a number that does not match what actually happens in a covered pan. Popcorn pops at…
Read the story →Olive oil shots are trending, but a spoonful with food does the same job. What one tablespoon contains, what the studies found, and the…
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, 2026Olive oil and lemon juice make a great dressing but not a liver cleanse. What the morning shot really does, the gallstone flush risk, and the calories.
October 4, 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…
New USDA olive oil standards take effect October 25, 2010, replacing grades from 1948. What they define, how they differ…
Andalusia's olive oil forecast for 2010/11: about 1,022,000 tons, down 12.5%. Why Córdoba and Málaga fall most, and what it…
Verticillium wilt has killed 147 hectares of olives around Aimogasta, Argentina, and reached its 400-year-old tree. Why there is no…
An olive oil mill for Tula, Tamaulipas: 700 hectares of groves, 120 tons a day, and most of the oil…
Spanish group Bogaris wants olive groves in California and a second Chile project. Why Spanish money is planting abroad, and…
Spain just sold a record million tonnes of olive oil, yet Spanish olive oil prices at origin have sat below…
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“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.”
