Food and wine festivals now put olive-oil tasting on the same billing as the wine. The two share the senses but play…
The familiar can of black 'California ripe' olives comes from a highly industrial supply chain. Here is how America's table-olive business actually…
California's answer to Europe is speed: super-high-density groves and machine harvesting that get olives from tree to mill in under two hours.
Northern California's Sacramento Valley has quietly become serious olive-oil country. Here is why the 'north state' suits the tree and what to…
By Marlene Parrish, An extra-virgin olive oil tasting is conducted much like a wine tasting. In a professional setting, small measures of…