Don’t bin your olive stones. Olive pits are a genuinely useful by-product: they burn as a clean, high-energy biomass fuel, feed the…
Tuscan olive oil stands out for its bold, green, peppery character — a robust, grassy, faintly bitter oil built mostly from three…
An olive, a pickled guindilla pepper and an anchovy, threaded on a cocktail stick. That is the entire Gilda, and it is…
Most stuffed olives are pitted green Manzanilla or Gordal. Compare pimiento, almond, garlic, blue cheese, jalapeño and anchovy, and what each one…
Tuna and olive pasta is the best thing you can make from a cupboard in fifteen minutes, and the two ingredients everyone…
Puglia is Italy’s biggest olive-oil region by a wide margin, producing somewhere around a third to a half of all the country’s…
Provençal olive oil is the mild, mellow face of Mediterranean oil — softer and rounder than the peppery Tuscan or Spanish styles…
Puttanesca is a fast, punchy Neapolitan pasta sauce built from a handful of storecupboard staples: tomatoes, black olives, capers, garlic, chilli and…
Olives are safe in pregnancy and genuinely useful. The thing to watch is sodium: ten olives can carry a quarter of a…
The dearest table olives on the market run to well over one hundred pounds a kilo, and in almost every case the…
One olive has about 4 to 7 calories, mostly from fat. Calories, fat, carbs, protein and sodium per 100 g for green,…
Table olives are a genuinely useful food for your gut, but not because they are a fibre powerhouse. Their value comes from…
Yes. Olives are very low in carbs and rich in healthy fat. A sensible serving is 5 to 10 a day, with…
For most people a small handful of olives a day helps blood pressure more than it harms. Sodium by cure type, how…
Olive trees routinely live for several centuries, and the very oldest survivors are believed to be well over a thousand years old.…
Olive tree care is mostly restraint: deep, infrequent watering, a light late-winter prune and a modest feed once or twice a year.…
The short answer: tapenade is far more than a dip. This salty, savoury paste of olives, capers, olive oil and garlic works…