Machines have harvested oil olives for years. Table olives fought back — because a bruise that vanishes in a bottle of oil…
One tiny fly can ruin a whole olive crop from the inside. The story of the olive fruit fly in California is…
'Pure', 'light' and 'pomace' are the olive oils the labels never quite explain. Here is the whole ladder below extra virgin —…
The mill, not the grove, is where good fruit becomes good oil — or gets quietly ruined. Speed, temperature and oxygen are…
The world's favourite table olive, Manzanillo, once frightened Australian growers who planted it for oil. The panic passed — and the lesson…