Archive for the 'Geographic' Category

08 May

Andersonville City Olive Oil

The theory goes that when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Good thing Kathy Rose had a different plan. When faced with a family crisis, Rose lost her parents to heart disease and cancer this former nurse took her passion for Europe and good-for-you food stuff and created City Olive, a cozy shop in […]

07 May

Fresno state Olive Oil wins Yolo Fair medal

Fresno State Orchards Estate Reserve Olive Oil has won its second consecutive medal and will be showcased at the Beyond Extra Virgin: Italo-Californian Olive Oil Conference on May 22-23 in Davis. The 2006 harvest olive oil produced by students at California State University, Fresno won a bronze medal at the Yolo County Fair competition judged […]

06 May

Murky Italian olive oil to be pored over

By Malcolm Moore, The secretive world of Italian olive oil will be laid bare after the government insisted that every bottle should show where it comes from. Large olive oil brands, such as Filippo Berio and Bertolli, have long cultivated the image that its oil comes from rustic, rolling groves in the Italian countryside. Instead, […]

06 May

Plush Dog Olive Toy

Available at target and Sharly loves it 😮

05 May

World health endorses eating olives

Olives are harvested in September but available year round to make a zesty addition to salads, meat and poultry dishes and, of course, pizza. Olives cannot be eaten right off of the tree; they require special processing to reduce their intrinsic bitterness. These processing methods vary with the olive variety, region where they are cultivated […]