Trade fairs devoted entirely to extra virgin olive oil, like Trieste's Olio Capitale, are where Italy's small producers meet buyers — and…
Why olive oil keeps winning kitchens far from any olive tree — the long, steady climb of a Mediterranean staple into Northern…
An importer was fined after 'extra virgin olive oil' turned out to be roughly half sunflower oil. It is a textbook case…
New-world producers have long argued the international olive-oil rules were written for Europe. The row over Australian oil is really a story…
When olive oil prices crash, the EU can pay producers to lock oil away in storage. Here is how 'private storage aid'…
Poor soil, fierce heat, little water — the very conditions that defeat most crops are what the olive quietly prefers. That is…
A California producer sweeping a competition with a dozen medals is a good story — but what do olive-oil awards actually measure,…
How tax-driven investment schemes planted much of Australia's olive industry — then collapsed — and why the groves outlived the finance that…
Why does the olive world keep running campaigns to teach India to cook with olive oil? Because a vast, oil-loving country with…
By David Morrill, Walk down the snack aisle of a local grocery store and you’ll find the usual canisters of peanuts, bags…
When Timbercorp's harvest froze mid-season, one company bought the whole crop off the tree to keep it moving. It is a lesson…
A one-pan Moroccan-style chicken braise with chickpeas, preserved lemon and green olives — where the olives are not a garnish but the…
Diets rich in olive oil, fish and nuts are linked to a lower risk of age-related macular degeneration. Here is the measured…
Spain makes more olive oil than anyone — yet exports much of it cheaply, in bulk, to be bottled abroad. Why the…
The famous names on olive-oil bottles — Carbonell, Bertolli, Carapelli — mostly belong to a handful of giant companies. How the world's…
En 2009, un marchand de vin de Seattle a payé pour faire venir par avion une huile d'olive fraîchement pressée d'un domaine…
In 2009 a Seattle wine merchant paid to air-freight freshly pressed olive oil straight from a Tuscan estate — an extravagance, maybe,…
Australia's boldest olive experiment was industrial scale: thousands of hectares of hedgerow olives, machine-picked. Its near-collapse shows both the power and the…
A brief trade note about Iran eyeing Croatian olive oil opens a bigger story: how tiny Istria became a world-beating producer, and…
Western Australia grew from a handful of olive-oil producers to hundreds, many of them backyard growers. Here is what that boom says…
How the world's biggest olive-oil bottler nearly destroyed itself: a cautionary tale of debt-fuelled ambition, famous brands like Bertolli, and why corporate…
'Liquid gold,' the ancients called it — and the health claims have never stopped. Here is the honest version: what olive oil…