You’ll be hard ‘pressed’ to find a healthier food
By Michael Devlin,
The Ulster Herald
Even Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, recommended the juices of fresh olives as a cure for mental illness and poultices of macerated olives for ulcers. And just last year Danish scientists found that adding plenty of olive oil to a diet could help protect against cell damage that can lead to cancer. A study of 182 European men found those who had 25 ml of olive oil per day had reduced levels of a substance which indicates cell damage.
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Healthy Recipe from the Oscars: Black and Green Olive Tapenade on Bruschetta
Wonder what hors d’oevres the Hollywood set nibbled on at the Academy Awards after party? A plethora of Wolfgang Puck creations, of course! The blog Teamsuger.com has a thorough Oscar night menu listed on their site, several recipes included. If you ever wanted to know what it feels like to be famous, try serving these celebrity-worthy morsels! You’ll be met with rave reviews.
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The Heart Of Italy’s Olive Tree Fields
By Steve Petusevsky,
I’ve been cooking with olive oil for more than three decades. But I never thought about what goes into producing it.
This past week, I got to see where olive oil comes from and follow its production from tree to press. I was in Puglia, Italy, learning about olive oil from the locals through a consortium known as Olivita. Some of the growers I met are fifth-generation producers.
The quality of olive oil begins in the field. The Apulian region in southeast Italy is almost solely devoted to olive oil production. The entire region, more than 500 miles across, is covered with olive trees. Their distinct silver-green leaves can be found nowhere else in nature.
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Rajasthan, Israel join hands for olive cultivation
By IANS,
Rajasthan is getting ready to grow olives. The state government has joined hands with an Israel-based company to cultivate olive and dates in the desert state.
‘We have tied up with an Israel-based company by forming Rajasthan Olive Cultivation Ltd (ROCL) for growing olives and dates in 40,000 hectares of land the state,’ Agriculture Minister Prabhulal Saini told IANS here Thursday, without naming the Israeli firm.
He said that the company during the first year would start to use Israeli technique in government-run agriculture farms at seven different places in the state.
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Tunisia olive oil exports jump 53% in 2006
Tunisia’s key olive oil exports jumped by 53 percent to 167 700 t last year as a government campaign to boost exports bore fruit, official data showed on Thursday.
Olive oil, whose popularity is growing among health-conscious consumers worldwide, represents half of the North African country’s farm sales which in turn account more than 10% of total exports.
The value of Tunisia’s olive oil exports surged to 828,9-million dinars last year from 476,7-million in 2005 as a drop in output from top producer Spain underpinned prices.
Tunisia’s domestic olive crop grew to 220 000 tonnes from 130 000 tonnes in 2005, compared to an average 145 000 tonnes over the past decade. It expects a crop of 170 000 tonnes this year.
More than 500 000 families depend on the labour-intensive olive oil industry in the country of 10-million, where 56-million olive trees cover around 1,6-milion hectares.
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