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With California olives and olive oils now savored all over the globe, this beautifully illustrated volume is a timely tribute to the California olive and its much-deserved place in history. Click here to preview the book online!

This book covers the history, botany and agricultural aspects of the crop, summarising the techniques that have been developed to improve harvesting, processing and packaging of olives. Full details are provided relating to the physico-chemical and microbiological aspects of processing of each of the olive types. It will serve as a practical guide to agricultural […]

In response to growing demand for organic olive oil and an increasingly competitive market, University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisors and researchers have produced an organic olive production manual. “Organic olive oil production could be a significant niche in California’s agriculture industry,” says Paul Vossen, UC Cooperative Extension farm advisor in Sonoma and Marin […]

As our friend and author of this amazing cookbook says, Remember, life is short, eat dessert first (as long as it’s made with olive oil) ;).

By Larry Cox, “The Elegant Olive” by Teresa Kennedy is part of the Cook West series. Each volume celebrates the tastes, colors, aromas and ingredients of the American West.     Kennedy, a Tucson-based cook, claims in her introduction that the world’s love affair with the olive probably began in prehistoric times. First cultivated in […]