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“I feel really good, happy and healthy,” she told Usmagazine at the Prada Trembled Blossoms event in LA Wednesday. “It’s great just to be able to eat!” the star of The Riches added. “No guilt! No guilt about anything.” And her big pregnancy craving? “Honestly, only olives,” she revealed. “That’s all I really dream about. […]

By Laura Kurtzman, After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the University of California, Davis established a research department that led to the flowering of the California wine industry now, it hopes to do the same for olive oil. The challenges to the emerging industry are significant. They include finding economical ways to produce fine […]

By Katie Bird, An extract from olive leaves and oil could be useful as a soothing ingredient after UV exposure say scientists. Oleuropein exhibits antioxidant and free radical scavenging activities which may go some way to explain the soothing qualities of the compound say scientists led by P. Perugini from the University of Pavia, Italy. […]

As South Australia endures the 15th day of its heatwave, Eyre Peninsula olive growers are battling in the lead up to next month’s harvest. At Lincoln Olive View Estate, production is expected to drop by as much as 10,000 tonnes, with some trees bearing just a few kilos of olives. Grower Kevin Burner says he […]

By Liz Crain, The Mediterranean region cultivates the majority of the world’s olives, but when it comes to domestic olives, California is the largest producer, cultivating roughly 10 percent of the world’s table olives. Oregon has been typically considered either too cold or too rainy for olive cultivation, but farmers are beginning to realize that […]