Los Olivos Jazz and Olive Festival planned for June 2
Lots of jazz music will share the stage with the olive industry when the arts-and-wine community of Los Olivos celebrates its heritage Saturday, June 2.
The third annual Los Olivos Jazz and Olive Festival, which is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Los Olivos, will run from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Principal jazz, olive and wine activities will be held in and adjacent to Lavinia Campbell Park in the center of the Los Olivos business district.
Those events include an afternoon of wine-tasting with nearly a score of Santa Ynez Valley vintners, tasting of olive-based dishes prepared by up to 30 amateur and professional chefs, and tastings and displays by several vendors of olive-based products.
In addition, plans include a silent art auction, a raffle, and sales of shirts, caps, tote bags and other items carrying the event’s popular jazz-and-olive logo.
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Pure delight
California’s emerging olive-oil industry hears a call for quality surpassing “extra-virgin” that will stand out in a troubled, competitive market.
By Jim Downing,
Picture by Florence Low,
Will American consumers pay more for olive oil that claims to be even more pristine than extra-virgin? Will they even be able to tell the difference?
With the value of the “extra-virgin” designation diluted by fraud and dozens of new California labels looking for a way to stand out in a tight market, some in the olive-oil business think it’s time for a higher standard.
This week, Claudio Peri, a food science professor at the University of Milan and the founder of a movement he calls “Beyond Extra Virgin,” is at the University of California, Davis, to sell his idea to California’s emerging olive oil industry. A two-day conference wraps up today.
The problem, say Peri and many in the California olive oil industry, is that much — if not most — of the extra-virgin oil on the U.S. market doesn’t deserve the label. Extra-virgin oil requires a strict harvest and processing regimen that yields certain flavor qualities recognizable to expert tasters. Many of the major label extra-virgin brands don’t make the cut, they say.
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Las Vegas – Gambling, Glamour and an Olive Bar…
Las Vegas is known primarily as a fun city, and so it is. But it’s not all casinos and glitz. In North Charleston Boulevard there’s an olive bar – a place where 22 varieties of olives and olive mixes can be sampled at very reasonable prices.
American people have recently embraced the humble olive as a kind of symbol of the healthy Mediterranean diet that everyone hears so much about. And of course, red wine is also being hailed as having properties that are good for the heart. Combine the two and you have a winner – an olive bar where guests can also enjoy a drop of wine.
Olives and olive oil are native to the Mediterranean region. However, they can be found growing today in many different parts of the world. In this way their popularity is spreading far from their original Mediterranean roots. This is a good thing for the olive bars of Las Vegas, and it’s only a matter of time before we find olive bars in other parts of the country too.
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US may increase olive and pomegranate imports from Azerbaijan
In the future the United States can increase live and pomegranate imports from Azerbaijan, said W. Kirk Miller General Sales Manager Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
“Azerbaijan’s having 9 [of 11] climate patterns [of the Earth] enables to export a variety of agricultural goods. There is not such a climate in the United States. I think we can increase olive and pomegranate imports from Azerbaijan,” he noted.
He added that about 80 agriculture specialists and experts were sent to the US for training, APA reports.
He also said that there is good platform for production of industrial fertilizers and US firms can cooperate in this field.
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Extra Virgin – a Pain Killer?
Scientific research has discovered that the properties of pure extra virgin olive oil contain an ingredient that acts similarly to ibuprofen, though not so strong.
Nature journal has reported that olive oil has special anti-inflamatory properties, and that it is useful in helping to combat the effects of ailments such as arthritis.
The active ingredient is called oleocanthal. It is not really strong enough to use against a headache, for example, but regular and continued use of olive oil should definitely cause a build up that will make a difference in any disease that requires inflamation relief.
Inflamation has of course been linked to other diseases, such as cancer and heart disease. Olive oil, while perhaps not a cure-all for these types of diseases, can only help to relieve the symptoms.
Olive oil is the natural and central ingredient in the so-called “Mediterranean diet,” long hailed as being one of the healthier diets in the world. The message here is obvious: consume plenty of olive oil, and even if it doesn’t actually help your ailments, it certainly will taste delicious at least!
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