Archive for August, 2006

18 Aug

Qualification de l’huile d’olive tunisienne

La recherche du label pour les produits tunisiens devient la cible de toute la stratégie agricole en Tunisie. Ainsi, le ministère de l’Agriculture et des Ressources hydrauliques a reçu un prêt de la BIRD (N°7063) pour réaliser une étude d’opportunité pour la mise en place et le développement de la qualification géographique de l’huile d’olive […]

17 Aug

Pressing concern for olive growers

Santa Barbara growers face lean harvest By Franck Nelson, Santa Barbara News Press Olive growers in Santa Barbara County are bracing for what is expected to be their leanest harvest in 25 years. The culprit is the weather, but not the recent hot spell; the high temperatures that troubled many crops were easily handled by […]

16 Aug

Do olives offer same benefits as their oil?

DEAR DR. BLONZ: We all know how healthy extra-virgin olive oil is for us. Do we get the same health benefit from eating olives?

16 Aug

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 quality lifestyle. For thousands of years olive oil has symbolized the good life and has been seen as a natural product that stands for abundance, purity and health. Today, centuries after the juice […]

16 Aug

Man could live on bread and olive oil

By Nicholas Boer, BRUSCHETTA IS TOAST, literally. But it’s also trendy — especially in summer, when chefs top it with tomatoes. To earn the name, however, all you need is good olive oil and coarse salt. Peter Chastain, chef of Prima in Walnut Creek, calls bruschetta “the quintessential food” of Tuscany and Umbria, surmising its […]