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York’s marvellous Mediterranean style climate is perfect for growing olives and from April to July the Olive Harvest is in full swing.

More than 200 US food service, supermarket and hospitality professionals were treated to samples of Greek olive oil from the Peloponnese, Crete and Lesvos along with Grecian wines and delicacies in a tourism development-funded ministry event held at the Greek embassy here last week.

By Cynthia Busuttil, Organic farming might be a new concept for Malta but for Siggiewi born and bred farmer Joseph Borg it is something he has been practising for over two decades. Although coming from a family of farmers, Mr Borg distanced himself from the land and held different jobs before deciding to return to […]

By Jeanne Kinney, Joshua Yaguda, co-owner of Pasolivo Olive Oil, is proving that Paso Robles is more than wine country. Yaguda, his wife, Joeli, and his mother, Karen Guth, run the 140-acre Willow Creek Olive Ranch, where each year about 50 laborers are able to hand-pick up to 10 tons of olives a day. After […]

By A.E. Stallings Sometimes a craving comes for salt, not sweet, For fruits that you can eat Only if pickled in a vat of tears— A rich and dark and indehiscent meat Clinging tightly to the pit—on spears Of toothpicks, maybe, drowned beneath a tide Of vodka and vermouth, Rocking at the bottom of a […]