The hardest thing to find on an olive-oil label is the truth — here is how to read past the vague, the…
‘Bottled in Italy’ is not ‘grown in Italy’. How olive-oil origin labels really work — and how to read the small print…
Can olive oil help with blood pressure? The honest, de-hyped answer: as part of a Mediterranean diet it may help a little…
Spain makes more olive oil than any country on earth — often more than the rest combined. The story of how, and…
From ancient amphorae to Van Gogh’s silver-green groves, the olive has been a favourite of painters for millennia — both a humble…
A drought that ruins other farmers can hand olive growers their best crop. Here is the counter-intuitive reason dry, warm weather can…
From fruit to bottle in a day: how a modern mill turns whole olives into extra virgin, and why every step is…
A bowl of olives beats almost anything in the crisp aisle — whole fruit, good fats, real flavour. With one honest caveat…
Wezi Tjaronda Windhoek Olive farming has great potential to become one of Namibia’s most important commercial crops. When all the olive trees…
A rich olive pâté built on oil-cured black olives, sweet roasted garlic and melted Brie or Fontina — a warmer, softer cousin…
Around the Mediterranean, olive oil gets its own museums — whole buildings for a ‘salad dressing’. Spend a moment with the history…
The perfect make-ahead party bite: crisp parmesan toasts, ricotta, tapenade and slow-roast tomato, built from four components you can prep in advance…
Éclipsées par la Toscane et l'Ombrie, les Marches d'Italie font discrètement des huiles élégantes et délicates — souvent issues du doux Leccino.…
Nobody bites a raw olive twice — so how did anyone discover they were worth eating? The answer is the whole craft…
Food, fuel, soap, medicine, cosmetics — olive oil has served every one. A look at the most versatile substance in the store…
Crushed olive stones can pull toxic chromium out of factory waste water by biosorption — a cheap, clean use for a residue…
Droits de douane, quotas et vrac décident autant de votre huile qu’une oliveraie. Guide clair de la mécanique commerciale derrière la bouteille…
Olive oil earns its heart-friendly reputation honestly — mostly monounsaturated fat, eaten in place of worse fats, as part of a whole…
A little California town named 'the olives' throws a jazz-and-olive festival every year. Behind the party lies a real story of Mission…
California’s emerging olive-oil industry hears a call for quality surpassing “extra-virgin” that will stand out in a troubled, competitive market. By Jim…
The deli olive bar promises abundance and choice — but behind the glistening trays is a supply chain worth understanding before you…
Between the Caucasus mountains and the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan quietly grows olives and pomegranates — a reminder that the olive map is…
That peppery sting at the back of your throat from a fresh extra virgin is oleocanthal — a natural compound that behaves…
Why one olive year is a glut and the next a bust: the tree’s built-in habit of alternate bearing, seen through California’s…
Crisp aniseed fennel, sweet-sharp blood orange, salty black olives and good oil — a five-minute Sicilian-style winter salad that is really a…
Olive oil's reputation as a friend to the heart is real but often overstated. Here is the sober, de-hyped version — what…
Olive leaf extract is sold on a wave of health claims — here is the sober version: what the leaf actually contains,…
Malte fait renaître sa propre olive antique, la Bidni — l’histoire d’un greffage à partir d’arbres millénaires pour sauver un patrimoine génétique…
That 'Italian' olive oil with the Tuscan hills on the label may never have seen an Italian olive. Why 'bottled in Italy'…
Bite a raw olive off the branch and you’ll spit it out. The whole art of the olive is turning that punishingly…
‘Extra virgin’ is a legal floor, not a promise of greatness. The push to define quality *beyond* that grade — freshness, harvest…
La Tunisie est l'un des géants mondiaux de l'huile d'olive — pourtant la plupart des gens n'en ont jamais goûté sciemment. Voici…
Spain quietly makes more olive oil than anyone on earth — here is why the world's biggest producer is also its most…
Chicken braised with prunes, green olives and capers — the sweet-and-salty classic behind ‘Chicken Marbella’, and a lesson in how olives lift…
Adopt-an-olive-tree schemes let you sponsor a real tree and receive its oil. The romance is genuine — but so are the ways…
Iran quietly became a real olive grower — but a flood of poor imports and adulterated oil has long dogged a market…
A slow-baked tuna with a garlicky tomato and green-olive sauce — a plain, honest Mediterranean plate that lives or dies on the…
Chopped green olives turn a plain tin-tomato sauce into something with backbone. Here is how to use them without wrecking the balance…
Olive oil is mostly oleic acid, a monounsaturated fat that steadies cholesterol and calms inflammation. Here is what that really means for…
Why the Mediterranean way of eating keeps earning its reputation — and the quiet, central role a good extra virgin olive oil…
Olive-oil competitions hand out thousands of medals a year. Some are rigorous blind tastings that genuinely flag good oil; others are close…
La première oliveraie commerciale du Botswana fut un pari audacieux sur un climat difficile. Voici ce qu'il faut vraiment pour cultiver l'olivier…
A no-cook sauce of good tinned tuna, black olives, lemon and basil tossed through hot pasta — a summer plate that rewards…
L'AOP Olive de Nice repose sur un seul cépage, le Cailletier — une petite olive douce, parfumée à l'amande, à la fois…
Not a diet in the slimming sense but a centuries-old way of eating: plants first, olive oil as the everyday fat, meat…
The good olive-oil shop, where you taste before you buy, is one of the last honest ways to learn what real oil…
A blue-cheese and cream fettuccine where olive oil does the quiet, clever work — building a garlic-scented base and finishing the plate.…
How California turned itself from a canning-olive backwater into a serious extra-virgin producer — and why its award-winning estate oils are worth…
A hearty barley and vegetable soup finished with sliced green olives — a reminder of how deeply the olive is woven into…
That rustic Italian bottle may hold oil from Tunisia, Turkey, Greece or Spain, lightly cut with a splash of the local product.…
Une olive en peluche qui couine pour le chien est une petite blague aux racines profondes : l'olive est l'un des plus vieux…
On ne peut pas manger une olive cueillie sur l’arbre — elle est terriblement amère. L’histoire de chaque préparation, c’est l’histoire de…
Pendant des années, une huile simplement mise en bouteille en Provence pouvait se faire passer pour provençale — même venue d'Italie ou…
Baby artichokes braised slowly in good olive oil with carrot, leek and garlic, finished with fresh goat cheese and a few Niçoise-style…
Extra virgin, virgin, ‘pure’, light — the labels on the olive-oil shelf are a grading system, not a marketing whim. Here is…
Tous les quelques ans, l'actualité rapporte une huile d'olive bradée bien en dessous du cours. La « braderie » n'est pas tant un scandale…
White fish, olives, cherry tomatoes and chilli in one pan — the quick Mediterranean method that turns cheap fillets into a bright,…
If you are going to cook with fat — and you are — extra virgin olive oil is one of the soundest…
Is a fish-and-grains diet better for your heart than one built on olive oil, nuts and avocado? The honest answer: it is…