American olive oil has grown up and now goes head to head with the European bottles that ruled the shelf for centuries.…
You don't need a Mediterranean hillside to grow an olive. They take happily to pots and patios — and the olive is…
California wrote some of the world's toughest olive-oil labelling rules to protect honest producers from imported fakes — the story of why…
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…