Most olive allergies are to the pollen, not the fruit or oil. Symptoms of all 3, whether you can still eat olives, and which tests to ask a doctor about.
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…
The olive council puts world olive oil production at 3.08 million tons, second only to 2003/04, with Morocco, Syria and…
Expoliva 2011 opened in Jaen with Andalusia promising loans to producers selling below cost. What the fair says about a…
A new olive oil adulteration test looks for trigonelline, a compound seed oils carry and olives do not. Cheap and…
India imported 4,187 tonnes of olive oil in 2010, up 60 percent. Spain and Italy take 90 percent of it,…
The Australian olive harvest is starting with forecasts of 16,000 to 19,000 tonnes after a very wet year. What the…
The second UC Davis olive oil report found 73% of top imported extra virgin samples failed two taste panels. The…
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.”
