A new study finds Greek olive oil consumption down 6.1 percent and packaged oil losing ground to bulk as households cut spending…
Extra Virginity, Tom Mueller's new book, shows how stale and cut oil ends up sold as extra virgin. What it argues and…
Two Cordoba businessmen accepted two-year sentences for selling hundreds of thousands of litres of sunflower oil dyed to look like extra virgin.
Pakistan has picked nine Punjab districts for olive planting and wants to cut its cooking oil import bill. What the plan gets…
A researcher in Jaen has drawn a biodegradable plastic out of olive skins in mill waste, and says a mill could earn…
Kailis Organic Olive Groves is in administration a year after raising A$25.5 million. What happened, how it got here, and what it…
Drought cut Catalonia's olive crop, then a week of downpours put much of it on the ground. Growers report losses of up…
World olive oil trade is up 10 percent, but Spanish prices have fallen back to 1.85 euros a kilo, wiping out the…
Syria's olive harvest is heading for a record of up to 200,000 tons of oil while the country is in turmoil. Who…
Australia wrote one of the world's toughest olive-oil standards — then had to fight its own supermarkets to enforce it. The story…
A handful of fresh olives in a traveller's bag can carry the pest that ruins an entire industry. This is why border…
American olive oil has grown up and now goes head to head with the European bottles that ruled the shelf for centuries.…
Turkey has long promised to convert its huge olive harvest into a major export business. The ambition is real, the obstacles are…
Ten minutes, five ingredients: a quick black-olive tapenade grilled onto crusty bread. The simplest way to turn good olives into a proper…
A hot mug on a wooden table leaves a ghostly white ring — and a clothes iron, a towel and a little…
You don't need a Mediterranean hillside to grow an olive. They take happily to pots and patios — and the olive is…
The moment an olive leaves the tree is the single biggest cost in the bottle. Hand or machine, that one choice shapes…
California wrote some of the world's toughest olive-oil labelling rules to protect honest producers from imported fakes — the story of why…
Some of the most interesting olive oils come from forgotten heritage trees that no one can quite identify. Here is why old,…
Jordan is a top-ten olive-oil nation where the tree is woven into land, economy and identity. Why olives matter so much there…
Pros slurp olive oil from little blue glasses and talk about pungency and fustiness. It looks absurd — and it's the fastest…
Plain brined olives are a blank canvas. Twenty minutes of gentle warmth with the right aromatics turns a cheap jar into something…
Long before it was a health food, olive oil was a household workhorse — a gentle solvent and softener that lifts sticky…
One of the most common questions about olive leaf. The honest answer: possibly, a little, for some people — not a cure.…
Why does a Californian olive farmer struggle while cheaper imported oil floods the shelves? The answer is a tangle of subsidies, scale…
The can of black olives on your pizza is a California invention: a green olive turned black by air and lye, not…
Olive oil is the most studied fat in the human diet, and the heart-health headline holds up — but the benefit lives…
You don't need a chef's tasting to learn to taste olive oil like an expert. Here is how the professionals do it…
Turning olives into oil is wet, heavy, sticky, relentless work against the clock. Behind the elegant bottle is a dirty job —…
How to cook olives into a rich, spiced beef braise — the pie that started as a family favourite, rebuilt as a…
When and how Spain brings in the world's biggest olive crop — table olives first in early autumn, oil olives through winter,…
Some green table olives are quietly dyed a permanent, unnatural green with a banned copper colorant. Here is how the fraud works,…
Pakistan has spent years betting on olives to cut a huge edible-oil import bill. Here is why the Potohar plateau keeps coming…
What it really takes to run a small family olive farm in Australia — Greek roots, hand-picking, a mixed grove, and selling…
In the hills of the West Bank the olive tree is more than a crop — it is livelihood, inheritance and identity.…
As they wound through the Italian countryside in January, Cambren Davis and Deirdre Rizzo were struck by the picture postcard images all…
Why an olive site keeps at it year after year: the fruit changes slowly, the trade changes constantly, and there is always…
Virgin olive oil in Spain has slipped under the EU trigger price of 1.71 euros a kilo. Growers say Brussels now has…
The IOC's Add Some Life campaign, worth 1.2 million euros, opened in New York. What it wants to achieve, who runs it,…
The olive council's first 2011/12 estimates have Spain at 1.4 million tons and Tunisia up by half, while producer prices keep sliding.
Surveys put olive oil top of the healthy oils list, yet only a third of people think monounsaturated fat is healthy. The…
Marco Mugelli, the Tuscan agronomist behind Italy's professional olive oil tasters, has died at 62. What he changed in the mill and…
Andalusia's olive oil fraud inquiry now blames poor storage, not fraud, for 15 failed batches. What was found, who is angry, and…
Borges has hired an Indian agency for a $2.7 million campaign. Why Spain's big brands spend hard in a market that barely…
Europe is set to ban most unproven food health claims. Olive polyphenols kept one claim, on protecting LDL from oxidation, with conditions.
UC Davis and the California Olive Oil Council are running two sensory classes before the Paso Robles Olive Festival. Why tasting is…
Australia's olive oil standard, AS 5264, is out. What it says about extra virgin, light and pure, why the IOC objected, and…
Imports rose 20 percent in six markets while Greek consumption fell. What the olive council's advisory committee heard in Istanbul.
Chile shipped 1,522 tons of olive oil in the first five months of 2011, up 221 percent, with the United States taking…
Grupo SOS is now Deoleo after selling its rice arm and the SOS name to Ebro Foods. What changed, why, and what…
North America has two mobile olive mills and both are booked out. Why milling within hours of picking changes the oil in…
A French study of 7,625 older people found 41 percent fewer strokes among heavy olive oil users. What it shows, and what…
The 2011 Los Angeles olive oil competition drew 599 oils from 23 countries. Australia's Cobram Estate and California's Sciabica took the top…
The Beyond Extra Virgin congress opens in Cordoba this week to argue that the top grade is not the top of the…
The 2011 Mario Solinas Quality Award went to El Labrador, SAOV and Sociedade Agricola do Conde. The results, the rules, and what…
The olive council puts world olive oil production at 3.08 million tons, second only to 2003/04, with Morocco, Syria and Turkey rising.…
Expoliva 2011 opened in Jaen with Andalusia promising loans to producers selling below cost. What the fair says about a sector in…
A new olive oil adulteration test looks for trigonelline, a compound seed oils carry and olives do not. Cheap and simple, and…
India imported 4,187 tonnes of olive oil in 2010, up 60 percent. Spain and Italy take 90 percent of it, and most…
The Australian olive harvest is starting with forecasts of 16,000 to 19,000 tonnes after a very wet year. What the rain did…
The second UC Davis olive oil report found 73% of top imported extra virgin samples failed two taste panels. The brand results…
An olive oil diet left arteries with fewer signs of damage in a small Cordoba trial of 20 older volunteers. What those…
From April 1 extra virgin olive oil sold in the EU must pass an alkyl ester test. What the limit catches, what…
Spanish scientists say they have built a genetic map of the olive and found genes behind oil fats, antioxidants and aroma. What…
Over 12,000 growers marched in Jaén as Brussels agreed to study private storage aid for olive oil. The prices, the triggers, and…
A review of 50 studies and half a million people links the Mediterranean diet to lower metabolic syndrome risk. The effects are…
Italian investigators seized 450 tons of allegedly deodorized olive oil and paperwork from four plants. What deodorized oil is and why it…
California's Senate has created a subcommittee on olive oil production, chaired by Lois Wolk. What the state's growers want out of it.
After 200 layoffs, Argentina has promised aid for the Catamarca olive industry. What was pledged, why the groves are hurting, and what…
UC Davis tested olive oil taste on 110 shoppers: 74 percent disliked the oils experts rated best and 44 percent liked defects.…
Four Spanish olive oil bodies questioned how the tasting panel is applied. Madrid kept the method and will ask the olive council…
A 12,000 person Spanish study links trans fats to depression risk and finds only a weak signal for olive oil. What the…
Palestinian fair trade olive oil: Canaan founder Nasser Abufarha collects a 25,000 dollar donation in Santa Cruz. How the West Bank system…
The Queensland floods have hit olive growers weeks before a bumper crop. What was lost, why the timing hurts, and what it…
Hojiblanca will ship 3,000 tons of extra virgin olive oil to China, part of the deals signed as Beijing shops in Madrid.…