Olive oil 101 with Michael Chiarello
By Stacey Delo, MarketWatch
When cooking at home, chef Michael Chiarello enjoys wild-fennel olive oil drizzled over roasted quail. He makes the fennel oil from scratch, warming a cup of olive oil with a quarter cup of fennel, then straining the mixture through a coffee filter.
Mr. Chiarello is the host of the Food Network show “Easy Entertaining” and owner of NapaStyle, a catalog and store.
Mr. Chiarello opts for intense oils in colder months, such as green cold-press olive oils from Tuscany or California. He stocks his cabinet with five varieties of olive oil, some for cooking and others for finishing: Ligurian, Tuscan, filtered, unfiltered and flavored. Unfiltered oil, which retains pieces of the olive, giving it a cloudy look, is not meant for cooking, he says, because the olive pieces can burn.
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Interest in Olive Growing Continues in Turkey
From Anadolu News Agency (aa), Izmir
The rise of olive oil prices in recent years, quotas on tobacco production and incentives for olive growers have fostered a renewed interest in olive growing. The number of olive tree saplings ordered for the next season has already reached 54 million.
It is estimated that if Turkey, which has 150 million olive trees in total with 40 million trees planted in the last 3-4 seasons, continues at this speed, it will surpass Italy and be the second biggest olive grower in the world after Spain, which has 270 million olive trees.
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La production d’olives lors de cette année avoisinerait 750.000 Tonnes
La production d’olives lors de cette année devrait atteindre les 750.000 tonnes, soit une augmentation de 14 pc en comparaison avec la moyenne des cinq dernières années, a indiqué, mardi à Rabat, le ministre de l’Agriculture, du développement rural et des pêches maritimes, M. Mohand Laenser.
Répondant à une question d’actualité à la Chambre des Conseillers, le ministre a ajouté que la production sera d’une qualité acceptable, indiquant que l’oliveraie nationale n’a pas subi de graves dommages causés par les maladies ou les insectes.
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Fête de l’Olive Piquée à Nyons
L’Alliance de la culture & de la gourmandise autour de l’Olive Noire de Nyons
La Fête de l’Olive Piquée célébrera dignement cette primeur des olives noires le samedi 16 décembre prochain à Nyons.
La philosophie de cette manifestation est d’honorer un joyau de notre terroir, une perle noire aux arômes subtils qui enchante les papilles et inspire les poètes…
C’est donc une fête résolument tournée vers le plaisir.
Plaisir gourmand d’abord avec des dégustations d’olives noires de Nyons, des concours de cake aux olives et de tapenade, des ateliers de fabrication de tapenade, …
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The land of liquid gold – Andalusia’s olive road
By Manuel Meyer
Jaen, Spain The olive tree is both loved and respected In many Mediterranean countries, but in the Spanish Andalusian region of Jaen, it is held in such esteem as to be almost holy.
The olive plays a major role in this part of southern Spain. The region has around 60 million trees, making it the largest olive tree growing area in the world.
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