Spain grows more olives than any country on earth. A grower's field guide to the varieties worth knowing, region by region, from…
In Cieza, Murcia, spitting an olive stone is a competitive sport with a world championship — and a record that keeps creeping…
How Chile went from a bit-player to a serious New-World olive oil producer — and what a wave of big Spanish-backed plantations…
Sicilian olive oil has a character all its own — ripe tomato, artichoke, a green almond bite. Here is how to taste…
Why Jordan's olive harvest swings so wildly from year to year, and what a bad season really tells you about a country…
Comment la Californie est passée d'arrière-pays de l'olive à vrai pays de l'huile : l'histoire des vergers en haie et des moulins modernes…
Long before it was a kitchen staple, olive oil was money, medicine, light and sacrament. A look at why the ancient world…
Olive leaf has a long folk reputation and some real, modest evidence for blood pressure — but the leaf is not a…
A large olive oil spill into a city harbour sounds harmless — it is food, after all. The truth is stranger: even…
The world's thirst for cheap olive oil has reshaped the land that grows it. Here is the real environmental cost of intensive…
How a small importer turns Spanish olives into chocolate, cosmetics and pate — and what the boom in olive-oil spin-offs is really…
L’oléiculture jouit d’une place stratégique dans l’agriculture avec une superficie de 1,6 millions d’hectares soit 30% des terres agricoles et 56 millions…
Why table olives are priced by size, why the two big Manzanillo and Sevillano varieties dominate California, and what a grower's cheque…
Le tigre de l'olivier est le ravageur bien australien de l'olivier ; une année humide, il peut amputer une récolte de moitié. Ce…
On déterre des oliviers centenaires pour les vendre comme meubles vivants, ou on les arrache pour des mines et des routes. Quelques-uns…
An olive festival in the California hills is more than a day out — it is a shop window on a young,…
How do judges decide the best table olive? A look at what separates a great cured olive from a mediocre one —…
Le noyau au cœur de l'olive est un combustible dense et gras — et une filière grandissante le brûle, le presse et…
Pourquoi les récoltes d'olives peuvent fondre de moitié d'une année à l'autre — la biologie de l'alternance, le climat qui l'aggrave, et…
Can you grow olives in the tropics? Sri Lanka's experiment to plant olive trees for export oil ran into a wall the…
Australia grows serious olive oil in cool districts that ripen the fruit slowly — the same long, gentle season that gives its…
Australia's growers built a certification scheme to guarantee their extra virgin really is extra virgin — a quiet answer to one of…
A vast Byzantine olive press unearthed in the Galilee shows how oil was made 1,400 years ago — and how little the…
The line between ‘extra virgin’ and the lesser grades is drawn by a single number you will almost never see on the…
India buys almost all its olive oil from abroad and has tried, on and off, to grow its own in Rajasthan. Here…
Une année d'olives maigre en Californie n'est presque jamais un simple coup de malchance. L'olivier produit beaucoup une année et peu la…
L'olive de table est un bon petit aliment — surtout de bonnes graisses, quelques minéraux, une dose d'antioxydants — mais elle est…
Strip away the charm and making olive oil is a race against time and oxygen: pick, crush, separate, and get it cold…