Olive oil fraud is real, it is old, and most of it is mundane rather than sinister: the commonest trick is not poison but paperwork. A bottle labelled "extra virgin" may have been cut with cheaper refined oil, blended with oil from a different country than the flag on the front suggests, or simply be a lower grade that has…
Read the story →Olive oil before bed will not help you sleep or burn fat overnight. What it may do for constipation, the reflux risk lying down,…
October 19, 2026How much olive oil per day? Studies range from half a tablespoon to four. The FDA figures, the calories, and a simple daily amount for each goal.
October 16, 2026Olive oil in coffee went mainstream with Starbucks Oleato. How to make it, what it tastes like, which oil to use, and what the health claims add up to.
October 13, 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…
Why do growers rip out perfectly good table-olive trees? Because the maths of a hand-picked, bruise-prone crop rarely adds up…
The olive lace bug is a small sap-sucker that quietly strips an olive tree's vigour. Here is how to spot…
California's McEvoy Ranch closes each harvest by bottling olio nuovo — the year's first, unfiltered oil. It is a story…
In California's wine country, the olive harvest follows hard on the grapes — a quiet second season with its own…
India is not an olive country by nature — but a desert experiment in Rajasthan proved the tree can be…
When olive prices climb, so does olive theft — whole harvests lifted off tarps overnight. Why the fruit is such…
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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.”
