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With Jenny Watts, The graceful olive tree captures the exotic beauty and fabulous flavor of the Mediterranean. This tree offers evergreen beauty, fragrant spring blooms, plenty of succulent fruit, and a distinctive look for any sunny spot. Olive trees were introduced to California by the Franciscan fathers who planted the “Mission” olive. Dozens of other […]

L’olive représente un aliment principal en Syrie et sa culture constitue une source essentielle des revenues d’un grand nombre de paysans. L’olive est plantée principalement à Lattaquié où la superficie cultivée est de plus de 42239 mille hectares et le nombre d’oliviers se chiffre à 8.946 millions dont 7.464 millions sont fruitiers.

By Christine Pirovolakis, Tassos Golemis can be found every evening tending to his olive grove in the fertile valley of the Taygetos mountain where the ancient Spartans once hunted and trained. For the first time, Golemis, together with his fellow olive-oil producers in the Mani peninsula, soft-pressed the region’s ripened olives of the Koroneiki variety […]

By Sara Goudarzi, Sugar and olive oil may not mix well in a jar. But in the lab, scientists have used them to create a very tiny capsule that can be loaded with medicine or food. The new “organogel” was made by adding a simple enzyme to activate a sugar, which changed olive oil and […]

Time out for World Cup at Fancy Food competition By Erika Markuys, The results of the 2006 Fancy Food Show product competition won’t be announced until tonight, but the real star of the show became apparent at 4:4l yesterday afternoon when Italy won the World Cup. France and Italy, who squared off in the title […]