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*CIA (Italian Farmers Confederation) It has now become a true business. You can even buy them on the Internet.Their price ranges from three thousand to ten thousand euros. It’s a “supermarket” of centuries-old olive trees, an illegal trade set up by criminals who steal trees on commission from Apulia, Calabria and other southern olive-growing regions […]

Par Robert Beauchemin, L’appellation Laudemio est unique aux huiles d’olives commercialisées au centre de la Toscane par une petite trentaine de producteurs seulement, dont I Mori, près de Florence. Ces huiles de qualité exceptionnelle, extraites à l’intérieur de limites géographiques précises selon des normes strictes et réglementées, présentent des standards de production parmi les plus […]

by Nancy Berkoff, Olives have different tastes, depending on the climate in which they are grown, the soil, the type and age of tree and the degree of ripeness at which they are picked. This means that olive oils have different tastes as well. For olive oil, you can add in the method in which […]

By Iota Sykka – Kathimerini Museum of Industrial Oil Production on Lesvos, funded by Piraeus Bank, is now open to visitors The Museum of Industrial Oil Production on the northern Aegean island of Lesvos is the fourth such achievement by the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation, which has launched a network of museums focusing on […]

By Suzanne Ashe, Extreme weather, relentless fruit flies and a bumper crop last year have contributed to a meager harvest this fall for Mother Lode olive oil producers. “The current olive crop (in California) is down 65 percent,” said Tuolumne County Agricultural Commissioner Paul Rainey. “This is the leanest crop this area has seen in […]