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Marketable health benefits, along with a growing consumer interest in Mediterranean foods and unique regional flavor choices, are helping to drive an invigorated olive oil market in the U.S., which should surpass $1.3 billion by 2010, according to Olive Oil in the U.S., the latest market research from Packaged Facts. Packaged Facts projects that the […]

The European Commission has given Italy two months to explain why it obliges olive oil producers to mark the origin of the olives on product labels in contravention of E.U. laws, a spokesman said Friday. “As far as we are concerned, that is not in conformity with European legislation, where voluntary labeling is possible but […]

By Roy Pirrung, For many years health advocates have touted the benefits of a Mediterranean diet, at the base of that diet is olive oil. Since the Bronze Age, olive oil in the diet has been the cornerstone of health for many reasons. Many people dislike the taste and the thought that it contains saturated […]

La France importe 90 000 tonnes, soit 95% de sa consommation annuelle d’huile d’olive. Nyons, dans la Drôme, et la Corse du Sud font une fête de la dégustation de l’huile d’olive nouvelle. Mais chaque région a ses traditions, ses terroirs, et aussi ses olives. Dans les Baronnies, la tanche, très savoureuse, a été consacrée […]

Pour rompre avec la culture du cannabis, très rentable dans cette vallée déshéritée, des femmes se lancent dans la production de l’huile et le commerce équitable. Avec la bénédiction de Rabat. Enfin la pluie est arrivée. Aussi brutale qu’inespérée. Quand Dieu «met les nuages en morceaux», dit une sourate du Coran, «ses serviteurs se réjouissent». […]