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Month: August 2006

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[Pakistan] Plea for large-scale olive cultivation: Potential seen for $3.5bn export

Pakistan has millions of wild olive trees and a decades-old dream of turning them into an export crop. The idea is real…

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Processing record set for New Norcia olives

At Australia's only monastic town, Benedictine monks still press oil from a grove planted in the 1850s — hand-picked, unhurried, and a…

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Quick hits: Calif. olive oil grows

California went from a canned-black-olive backwater to a serious extra-virgin producer in a generation. Here is how a young industry grew up,…

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Long Meadow Ranch ‘Much more than Wine & Olives’

It began like any other tasting in the Wine Country. First I swirled, circling my tiny glass on the counter so the…

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Tunisie: Huile d’olive – mieux faire connaître les spécificités du produit tunisien

La Tunisie est l'une des grandes puissances mondiales de l'huile d'olive — pourtant l'essentiel quitte le pays anonyme, en vrac. Voici ce…

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Olive obsession

Fruit can add flavor to vegetarian dishes A proper appreciation of olives begins early and fixates more on the fingers than mouth.…

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Lentil and Olive Salad

Earthy lentils, salty olives and a sharp warm dressing — a protein-rich salad that only improves overnight and turns a few storecupboard…

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Celebrating the olive

Why a small Sacramento Valley town crowns an olive queen every autumn — and what the ripe black California olive really is.

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Spicy Potato Tagine with Olives

A North-African one-pot where olives are the backbone, not a garnish. Cheap, forgiving, better the next day — and a lesson in…

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This olive importer, as an aside, rolls out the barrels

Before an olive reaches your deli counter it has usually crossed an ocean in a plastic barrel of brine. That humble barrel…

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Reducing foreign oil is olive growers’ goal

California farmers are making a big push, planting tens of thousands of trees By George Raine, It was Julio Cesar’s first day…

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Quiche aux Courgettes et Olives

Une quiche d'été légère aux courgettes râpées, olives noires et herbes — la preuve que l'olive a sa place bien au-delà du…

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Sheryl Crow Promotes Organic Eating To Avoid Cancer

Does cooking with olive oil at high heat create carcinogens? A calm, de-hyped look at what actually happens when you heat olive…

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[Italia] Olive oil compound may boost antioxidant defences, says study

Tyrosol and hydroxytyrosol are the quiet phenols behind olive oil's heart reputation. Here is what they actually do, and why extra virgin…

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[Tunisie] Decrets Fonds de promotion de l’huile d’olive conditionnée.

La Tunisie est un géant de l'huile d'olive que le monde voit rarement sur une étiquette — parce que l'essentiel part en…

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Russian olive losing favor

By Blake Nicholson, Once beloved as windbreaks, trees banned in some states Russian olive trees, which have sunk their roots in soil…

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California olive crop near wipeout, Bartlett pear crop up sharply

Tous les quelques années, la récolte californienne d'olives de table ne baisse pas : elle s'effondre. Le coupable n'est presque jamais la maladie…

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Olive harvest the pits?

California grows almost all of America's canned ripe olives — but shrinking acreage, a wildly swinging crop and cheap imports have squeezed…

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Olives in Summer Salads: Five Fresh Ideas

A handful of good olives turns a plain summer salad into something with depth and bite. Five fast, no-recipe ways to put…

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Olive growers dealt a losing hand

by Kathy Coatney, Olive set is light this year Bloom time weather is blamed The full impact of the February freeze on…

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Lentil Balls With Olives

Fried lentil-and-olive balls are a small master class in an old Mediterranean trick: using the olive as seasoning, not garnish.

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[Israël] Huile d’Olive – La demande sur les marchés israéliens et mondiaux augmente

Par Allison Kaplan Sommer, La demande en huile d’olive sur les marchés israélien et mondiaux augmente (car il a été prouvé que…

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[Iran] to sign intl. olive oil agreement

When a country signs the International Agreement on Olive Oil and Table Olives, it joins a quiet global body that sets the…

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Oberti Olive Canning Plant to Be Sold at Public Auction

When a Central Valley olive cannery goes under the hammer, it is not just one family brand ending — it is a…

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Olive Oil Strategic Business Report

Extra virgin, virgin, refined, pomace, 'light' — the words on an olive-oil label are a legal grading ladder, not marketing. Here's how…

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Qualification de l’huile d’olive tunisienne

La Tunisie est un géant de l'huile d'olive qui l'a longtemps vendue en vrac, sans nom. La lente marche vers la qualification…

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Pressing concern for olive growers

A lean olive year is rarely the summer's fault. The damage is usually done months earlier, at flowering — and understanding that…

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Do olives offer same benefits as their oil?

L'olive entière partage les bons gras et les composés végétaux de l'huile extra-vierge — mais le sel de la préparation change le calcul.…

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Spanish Company Introduces New Way to Use Olive Oil

The good life is all about mind, body and spirit. Feeling good about yourself and being healthy are the essentials for a…

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Could You Really Live on Bread and Olive Oil?

The old Mediterranean saying that you could live on good bread and good olive oil is wrong in the letter and right…

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Olive Oil: A Couple of Tablespoons a Day Will Keep (Many) Doctors Away

By Kyle Phillips, Olive oil was Athena’s gift to the Ancients, and she gave much better than we knew, as I discovered…

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[Turkey] Olive festival at Tuğra restaurant

A palace restaurant's olive-oil festival is a nice excuse to look at the real story: Turkey is one of the world's great…

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La production d’huile d’olive au Maroc mise en relief par ”The Boston Globe”

Le Maroc a voulu devenir une vraie nation de l’huile d’olive — en doublant ses oliveraies, en courtisant l’export, et en se…

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So Long to Strictly Olive Oil

Long before olive oil was fashionable, a handful of tasters taught shoppers to use their palate as the only honest test. Their…

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Disaster predicted for Central Valley olive growers

Nearly every American table olive grows in one place — California's Central Valley — in two Spanish varieties, for one product: the…

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The olive oil paradox

© Copyright 2006 Globe Newspaper Company. By Beth Daley, Americans consume olive oil for their health, but in Morocco, the residue is…

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Olive oil secret to Loren beauty

Bathing in olive oil is an old glamour legend — but what does the science actually say about olive oil on skin?…

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What would martinis be without them?

The olive in your martini is more than a garnish, and the small-town olive festival is more than a fair. Both are…

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From the Archive: Olive Leaf and Blood Flow — a 2006 Study (and Why “in Rabbits” Matters)

An olive-leaf compound, oleuropein, keeps making cardiovascular headlines. The science is genuinely interesting — and far more cautious than the supplement labels…

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Tiré des archives : feuille d’olivier et circulation sanguine — une étude de 2006 (et pourquoi « chez le lapin » compte)

Un composé de la feuille d'olivier, l'oleuropéine, revient sans cesse dans les titres sur le cœur. La science est vraiment intéressante —…

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Types of Olive Oil

Extra virgin, virgin, ‘pure’ olive oil, ‘light’ — the words on the bottle are a grading system, not a marketing whim. Here…

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Olive oil scores big on health and taste

By Susan Ladd, It may be heredity, and it may be luck, but I think the reason I have cholesterol numbers that…

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[MAROC] Polémique autour du SIAGRIM

Après la première édition du SIAGRIM, Saïd Azarou se confie à Al BAYANE : Le «jury a été partial» Ce qui est…

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Black Olive Soup

La soupe d'olives noires paraît saugrenue et goûte le soleil et la mer — une idée méditerranéenne économe pour transformer un bocal…

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Russian olive: friend or foe?

By Blake Nicholson, Russian olives have been planted in the United States since homesteading days, but some states now view the trees…

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Oil & Vinegar

Shops that let you taste olive oil like wine and fill a bottle on the spot are a lovely idea — and…

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[Turkey] Olive oil specialties at Mövenpick Hotel Istanbul

Across the eastern Mediterranean, a whole family of dishes is built on olive oil used cold, as the main flavour rather than…

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Olive Oil, Liquid Gold

LIQUID GOLD COURTESY PHOTOS/NORTH AMERICAN OLIVE OIL ASSOCIATION Orzo cucumber salad Olive oil : healthful, tasty and versatile By AMY MATTHEW THE…

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Olive oil great in any dish

Extra-virgin, virgin, refined, 'light', pomace — the labels on an olive-oil shelf are a code, not a marketing muddle. Here is what…

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Olive oil is olive oil is olive oil, right?

Extra virgin, 'pure' and 'light' are not flavours or strengths — they are processing grades. Knowing the difference is the single most…

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[Maroc] Oléiculture: Pourquoi le Maroc a raté ses rendez-vous

• Un retard flagrant par rapport au pourtour méditerranéen • Défaillances structurelles de qualité • ALE avec les Etats-Unis, une opportunité en…

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[Canada] Olive oil circuit runs nano-scale rings round silicon

A famous experiment built a light-sensing chip using oleic acid — the very fatty acid that makes up most of olive oil.…