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Month: November 2007

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Silverbeet & olive tart with parmesan crust

A chard and black olive tart in a parmesan crust — plus the technique that keeps the pastry crisp and the olives…

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USAID-funded training helps growers improve quality of olive harvest

Palestinian Growers Boost Production of Premium Olive Oil By Grace Bradley, Jerusalem — “Don’t think of it as oil. What you’re tasting…

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Happy 40th Anniversary, Olive Pit!

L'industrie oléicole californienne s'est construite autour de quelques villes de la vallée du nord et d'un produit très particulier : l'olive noire en…

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Olives make a perfect appetizer

Un bol d’olives est la chose la plus simple à poser sur une table, et la plus facile à rater. Comment les…

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Tunisie: Sousse – Campagne oléicole 2007/2008

Par Hichem Benzarti, Une production record estimée à plus de 23.000 tonnes d’huile d’olive La région de Sousse compte pas moins de…

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Filippo Berio Olive Oil is now available in India

A famous olive oil name arriving in a new country tells you very little about where the oil grew. Here is what…

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Italy: Olivagando. Oil and autumn festival

Umbria's new-oil festivals around Lake Trasimeno, the local Dolce Agogia olive, and why the Italian olive calendar hangs on late-November saints' days.

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Un marocain à la tête du Conseil oléicole international

Le Conseil oléicole international écrit les règles qui décident de ce qu'est une vierge extra. Ce qu'il est, ce qu'il fait vraiment,…

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Turkish Olive producers move toward trademarks

La Turquie compte des dizaines de millions d’oliviers et a longtemps vendu une grande part de sa récolte en vrac. Le passage…

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Olive, grape extracts keep bugs at bay to keep food on the shelf

Olive and grape extracts are being sold as natural food preservatives. The chemistry is real, the marketing is ahead of it, and…

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Filière oléicole Algérienne vers une production 2007 record

L’Algérie compte des millions d’oliviers, une tradition culinaire profonde et très peu d’huile sur les marchés mondiaux. Pourquoi la filière reste domestique,…

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Tunis : Le Famex lance une consultation sur l’huile d’olive pour le Japon et les USA !

Le Japon et les États-Unis sont les deux marchés convoités hors d'Europe pour l'huile d'olive — et ils attendent des choses presque…

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Australia: Olea sells off olive assets in $18m deal

Australia planted vast olive groves with investors' money in the 1990s and 2000s, then sold them off. The story of managed investment…

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Gold of The gods – EVOO with 23k edible gold

Gold flakes, crystal bottles, luxury olive oil. What you are actually paying for in a premium bottle, what genuinely justifies a high…

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Israel: Sharp drop in olive harvest

When an olive harvest halves in a year, it is rarely one cause. Drought, alternate bearing and flowering weather stack up —…

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From olive to oil…

From tree to bottle in one pass: what actually happens to an olive at the mill, why each step matters, and where…

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Recognition for best olive oil

Olive oil competitions hand out thousands of medals a year. How judging actually works, which awards mean something, and why a gold…

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Lesvos olive oil wins top quality award

Lesvos makes some of Greece's most distinctive olive oil from a variety almost nobody outside the island can name. A look at…

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Turkish Olive, olive oil exports declining dramatically

La Turquie produit d'énormes quantités d'olives et exporte comparativement peu de valeur. Vrac contre marque, alternance, prix planchers et falaise à l'export :…

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l’huile nouvelle 2008 est déjà en vente au moulin de La Fare les oliviers

L'huile nouvelle, prise au moulin : ce qu'elle est vraiment, pourquoi elle n'a rien à voir avec une bouteille achetée au printemps, et…

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Two very different takes on Lebanon’s love affair with olive oil

By Christian Porth, Every year from early November until late January, farmers throughout Lebanon engage in the timeless ballet that is the…

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L’huile d’olive tunisienne présente en Turquie

Pourquoi les pays producteurs s’observent de si près — comparaison de terrain des grands producteurs méditerranéens et de ce que chacun réussit.

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Training session on Olive cultivation held

India has wild olives growing in the Himalayan foothills and a long-running effort to make them commercial. Top-working is the technique at…

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Spain: Olive oil buoys SOS Cuetara

Most famous olive oil brands are owned by a handful of large food companies, and many are not owned in the country…

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Ojai home tour includes Italianate villa with orchard

By Lisa McKinnon, In many parts of the country, a holiday home tour would be just that: a tour of homes. Ticketholders…

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A different harvest, South County crop earns high marks

By Kerana Todorov, The two Napa Valley chefs — Fox works at Napa’s Ubuntu and Cognetti is executive chef at St. Helena’s…

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L’huile d’olive algérienne va se doter d’un label

Annoncer un label pour une huile d'olive nationale est facile. Lui donner un sens est le travail. Guide pratique de ce que…

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Olive Wood: Why the Tree’s Timber Is So Prized

Olive wood is one of the hardest, densest and most beautiful timbers in the world — and almost all of it comes…

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Boundary Bend vying for the title of Australia’s top farm exporter

Australia built a modern olive oil industry from scratch in a few decades. The Murray valley plantations, the freshness advantage, and why…

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Home curing Olives from Ken Churches

Four ways to cure olives at home — water, brine, lye and dry salt — with the timings, the safety rules and…

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Spanish olive oil futures market seeks speculators

Spain once ran the world's only olive oil futures exchange, in Jaén. It never found the liquidity it needed, and it eventually…

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Tadla-Azilal, Maroc: la production d’olive devrait atteindre plus de 120.000t en 2007

Le Maroc est l’un des grands pays de l’olivier et l’un des moins reconnus. La Picholine marocaine, la maasra traditionnelle, et pourquoi…

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The Olive in California: History of an Immigrant Tree

The olive reached California with Spanish missionaries, survived a century of false starts, invented an entirely American style of black olive, and…

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Table Olives: Production and Processing

A raw olive is inedible. Everything you taste in a table olive — texture, colour, saltiness, sharpness — was decided by which…

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L’huile d’olive, le pétrole de la Kabylie

Par D.A., Une réussite industrielle au service d’un projet agricole C’ est une exploitation agricole dont l’exemple se rencontre rarement dans le…

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Gros plan sur l’huile d’olive française !

La France boit beaucoup d'huile d'olive et n'en produit presque pas — a peine 3 a 5% de ce qu'elle consomme. Voici…

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California: Wine/olive growers get a free break

Quand un comté californien rogne discrètement les taxes de voirie d'un producteur, il soutient une mutation plus vaste : la survie des petites…

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Some Facts About Olive Oil

What is the difference among “Virgin”, “Extra virgin”, “Fine” and “refined” olive oil? Will olive oil loses its nutritional value when heated…

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Chinese olives – Nam Leab

L’« olive » chinoise vendue sous le nom de kan lan ou qing guo n’est pas une olive du tout — et ce simple…

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Forest Fires Destroy Woodlands, Olive Groves In Lebanon

Fire season in Lebanon regularly threatens ancient olive groves. Here is why olives are tougher than pine, what a burnt grove really…

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Special bottling for Turkish olive oil

By Vahap Munyar, Recent days have witnessed a debate between Turkish olive oil exporters and non-refined olive oil producers regarding imports. Non-refined…

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Passion for olives reaps success

Why so many people plant an olive grove for their retirement — and what the small, hand-picked New Zealand oils get right…

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Amrutanjan to add olive oil to portfolio

When an Indian pain-balm maker eyes olive oil, it says something about where the bottle sits in Indian heads: closer to the…

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Victorian olive oil company makes splash

Australia turned up late to olive oil and did something clever: it built a tightly controlled, tree-to-bottle industry and a tougher quality…

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Olea Capital: 1,8 milliard dirham pour la production d’huile d’olive

Quand les investisseurs déversent des centaines de millions dans l'huile d'olive marocaine, ils achètent une seule idée : la plantation super-intensive. Voici ce…

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Off The Beaten Path: The Wolfskill Olive Ranch

On a research ranch near Winters, California, some 150-year-old Mission olive trees still crop every autumn — and helped seed the modern…

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Lebanon: Chouf residents rush to buy imported olive ‘wood’

The olive gives up almost nothing to waste. The pressed pulp and crushed stones become a clean, hot-burning fuel — olive-pomace briquettes…

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Olive oil milling is rapidly taking hold in S.J.

How California went from growing olives for cans to pressing serious extra virgin at scale — and why the hardest part is…

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Give a live olive tree as a gift from Lindsay Olives

Un olivier vivant est l'un des plus anciens cadeaux qui soient — une promesse de paix qui, par-dessus le marché, survit à…

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Vigilance saves olive trees from infestation

The olive fruit fly is the one pest that can ruin a home olive crop — and beat a careless commercial one.…

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2008 Californian crop production could surpass that of France, official says

By Elizabeth Larson, Moving along at a pace of about 2 acres per hour, Olive Glen Orchards’ new Australian-designed olive harvester began…

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It’s Olive Picking Time at Caltech

Millions of olive trees line streets and campuses far from any farm, dropping fruit nobody eats. Turning that nuisance into oil is…

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120000 hectares of increase in world’s Olive cultivation

The world plants more olives almost every year. Here is why the map keeps growing — who is behind it, where the…

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DNA shows ancient ship carried olive oil, oregano

Ancient wrecks and the DNA trapped in their clay jars are rewriting the story of the olive-oil trade — proof that the…

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Northern Yuba County, CA climate’s is considered ideal for growing olives

Why a Sierra-foothill grove on the same latitude as Athens can make world-class oil — and why that $20 bottle costs what…

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Pakistani Government to develop olive oil production

Pakistan already has millions of olive trees — wild ones. The whole national project rests on a graft: turning bitter mountain scrub…

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Central Coast farmers expand olive oil production

California's Central Coast has quietly grown into serious olive-oil country, built on small handcrafted producers rather than industrial scale. Here is what…

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The Olive in a Martini (and the Dirty Martini)

Lemon twist or olive? The martini olive is a small art: which one to spear, why an odd number, and what really…

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Cooking the Spanish Way with Olives and Olive Oil

Spanish food runs on olive oil and olives — not as a garnish but as the foundation. Here is how to cook…