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By Judith Salkin, Let’s face it, a weekend of doing nothing but eating fine food, drinking fine wine, listening to fine music and eyeing fine art sounds like a pretty good way to get the desert’s social season off to a fine start. If this sounds like a way you’d like to spend your time […]

Top American olive supplier chooses JunctionF/B and Microsoft Dynamics AX– Junction Solutions, the premier provider of food and beverage focused enterprise software and services based on the Microsoft platform, today announced that Musco Family Olive, the largest supplier of table olives in America, has chosen JunctionF/B(TM) and Microsoft Dynamics(TM) AX enterprise software to improve control […]

New technologies being used Lowers labor costs, speeds processing Fresh is the word when it comes to a new marketing push for California olive oil. The freshness campaign starts on the farms where growers are using updated technology to plant more olive trees per acre and to prune the trees to a height permitting them […]

The north state is home to a number of olive oil growers and producers. A variety of olives flourish here because of the area’s Mediterranean-like climate. Not all businesses bottle under their own name, and they may sell their harvest to other producers or may only sell by wholesale. Visitors, especially on the weekends, may […]

By Marlene Parrish, An extra-virgin olive oil tasting is conducted much like a wine tasting. In a professional setting, small measures of olive oil are poured into clear cup-shaped glasses and placed in front of a panelist. Each glass is held up to the light and judged on color, which can be colorless or as […]