Archive for December, 2006

13 Dec

New Year’s Resolution No. 1: Prevent Cancer, Use Olive Oil

If you want to avoid developing cancer, then you might want to add eating more olive oil to your list of New Year’s resolutions. In a study to be published in the January 2007 issue of The FASEB Journal, scientists from five European countries describe how the anti-cancer effects of olive oil may account for […]

13 Dec

Kalamata Freshly picked olives…

Nikita Kotsiaris/ANA Freshly picked olives spill out of sacks in Kalamata, in the southern Peloponnese, where the harvest season is currently in full swing. Greece is the world’s third-largest producer of olive oil after Spain and Italy, producing 350,000 tons of olive oil annually. Greece is also the world’s biggest producer of black olives. [Source] […]

12 Dec

Is there an olive in your oil?

Increasingly, people in the United States are finding out that cooking is a creative process, a string of conscious choices, instead of an exact science. Typically, we must hand pick our ingredients, testing them for freshness and flavor. We must choose which knives to cut them with and which pans to cook them in. We […]

12 Dec

L’huile d’olive tunisienne en Chine

L’huile d’olive tunisienne Chaâl du sud de Sfax, dispose d’une réputation internationale. Le promoteur, Tarek FOURATI, PDG de la SOCOHUILE, producteur et industriel de l’huile Chaâl, a déjà pénétré le marché canadien, puis celui des USA, et dernièrement ce fut le tour de Pékin en Chine. Cette huile, conditionnée en bouteilles de différents volumes, vise […]

12 Dec

L’olive fruit traditionnel du Liban rural

Les habitants de la montagne du Mont Liban, du Nord et du Sud, retranchés dans les traditions, plantent l’olivier depuis des centaines d’années. Source principale de revenu, l’olivier est devenu le gagne pain essentiel aux villageois. Cultivé depuis des millénaires, l’olivier reste ancré dans les mœurs et les coutumes des villages éloignés de la capitale. […]