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“Un aïeul pour le planter, un père pour le tailler et toute une descendance pour récolter…”. La légende dit que l’olivier est immortel. Il est vrai que des pousses reconstituent l’arbre quand le tronc est détruit, lui donnant une longévité exceptionnelle: jusqu’à 5000 ans! L’olivier appartient à la famille des oléacées, comme le frêne ou […]

By Elisabeth Kalfsbeek, While it is produced in Europe and South America as a byproduct of wine grapes, grapeseed oil is fast becoming California’s hot new commodity for retailers and restaurateurs alike. “The market has grown dramatically,” said Matthieu Kohlneyer of La Tourangelle, an artisan producer of specialty and organic oils, in Woodland. “A lot […]

Company has signed a marketing and distribution deal with Italy-based Salov, plans to launch Italian brand olive oil ‘Filipo Berio´ in other metros and tier II cities. FMCG company R R Oomerbhoy eyes to grab 15% of the total domestic market of olive oil by next year, managing director of RRO Riyad R Oomerbhoy said […]

In Hasbaya, an Olive Press owner, Rashid Zoueihed developed a new way to use the Olive skin and kernels after pressing the oil out. Pressing these rests into a small machine to make Cylinders 25 cm long and 15 cm radius, weighing each 1200 g, passing into this machine makes these natural olive elements glued […]

By Sudhin Thanawala, MARTINEZ, Calif.—Later this fall, Tom Powers will harvest his olives and press them into his Alhambra Valley brand authentic extra virgin olive oil with a distinctive peppery finish. “This is really high quality stuff,” says Powers, whose two varieties of Tuscan olives grow amid the dry, rolling hills of Contra Costa County, […]