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Par Robert Beauchemin, Dans le monde des huiles d’olive italiennes, il y a les huiles de domaines et celles de coops. Ces dernières sont produites dans les régions où, traditionnellement, les paysans apportaient leurs olives aux moulins pour en faire de l’huile servant à la consommation courante. C’était bien souvent le cas dans le talon […]

By Larry Cox, “The Elegant Olive” by Teresa Kennedy is part of the Cook West series. Each volume celebrates the tastes, colors, aromas and ingredients of the American West.     Kennedy, a Tucson-based cook, claims in her introduction that the world’s love affair with the olive probably began in prehistoric times. First cultivated in […]

By: Maia Bradley, Bike accidents are the pits – olive pits, that is, from the more than 1,500 olive trees growing around the UC Davis campus. Strewn and smashed all over the university’s bike lanes in past years, the oily fruit posed a problem to cyclists and grounds keepers. With some creativity, though, that problem […]

Recipe by Tobie Puttock, Daily Italian, Photography by Mark Chew,    

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has delayed by one year its plan to dump tax breaks for non-forestry managed investment schemes. The Federal Government last month announced the ATO was changing its interpretation of laws that allowed people investing in crops such as olives, wine and avocadoes to claim upfront tax breaks. The new interpretation […]