Take the tomato off a pizza and the olive stops being a decoration. On a red pizza, sauce covers a multitude of choices: acidity and sugar blur the edges of whatever you scatter on top. A white pizza, pizza bianca, has cheese, oil, salt and whatever you were brave enough to add. The olive is suddenly one of only three…
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…
How a Sicilian olive becomes extra virgin oil — from the September picking to the cold-pressed juice — and why…
L'Iran est discrètement devenu un vrai producteur d'olives — arbres sauvages anciens, élan moderne de plantation, et un goût national…
Australia's real olive-oil advantage isn't sunshine — it's the calendar. Harvested when the northern hemisphere's oil is a year old,…
By Christine Delsol, "Which one is the best?" the man asks, tiny plastic cup in hand, as he ponders six…
The olive fruit fly ruins backyard crops by laying its eggs inside the fruit. Here is how the pest works…
The body that decides what 'extra virgin' legally means also spends years teaching new markets to want olive oil. In…
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.”
