When olive prices climb, so does olive theft — whole harvests lifted off tarps overnight. Why the fruit is such easy prey,…
Wine country keeps turning to olives — and the reason is a clever trick of machinery: the same harvester that shakes grapes…
Lebanon has pressed olive oil for millennia — the Phoenicians shipped it from Sidon and Tyre. A look at one of the…
In the Libyan uplands the olive is not a luxury but a lifeline — a tree that turns dry, stony hills into…
Giant stone wheels, woven mats, a spinning centrifuge: the old Italian way of pressing olives, step by step — and why some…