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By Jolene Ketzenberger, Olive oil just isn’t exotic anymore. Though it trumped vegetable oil as the U.S. consumer’s cooking oil of choice nearly five years ago, today’s oil options have expanded far beyond corn, canola and even extra-virgin olive oil. For healthfulness and versatility, says Indianapolis gourmet shop owner Jack Stearns, grapeseed oil is hard […]

August 25th, 2007 10:00am – 5:00pm Downtown Paso Robles City Park www.pasoolivefestival.com   * Free Olive Oil and Olive product sampling * Producers from all over California * Olive Oil Tasting lead by the California Olive Oil Council * Culinary Row serving great food * Wine & Beer Tasting * Open Olive Dish Cooking Contest […]

It’s not always the label on the wine bottle that attracts admiring attention at dinner parties. Sometimes it’s on the one containing green-gold extra-virgin olive oil. In the past 7 years there has been a small revolution in the winelands that has nothing to do with grapes. It gathered momentum when Italy’s Giulio Bertrand bought […]

If good growing weather continues and there’s enough irrigation water, the Central Valley olive crop could be more than six times larger than last year’s. California’s olive crop this year will produce about 112,000 tons, growers estimate. Last year the trees yielded a meager 16,800 tons. However, water is becoming an issue in olive groves […]

Tuscany’s 12 hills to become centre of biomass production – Chianti could become a production centre for renewable biomass energy thanks to an abundance of vegetable by-products from the cultivation of olives and grapes, in addition to livestock and wood farming. The University of Florence already has an experimental project in place to study eventual […]