Remedies and Olive Oil
By Kate Hopkins,
Still not convinced on how olive oil was an important component of Mediterranean culture? Here’s a list of various ways olive oil was integrated into everyday life.
Note that I do not advocate nor claim the efficiency of these claims.
* Hair: People used olive oil as a conditioner of sorts. After shampooing one’s hair, they would rub in a mixture of olive oil, egg yolk, lemon juice and a bit of beer. They left it in for about 5 minutes before washing out.
* Dandruff Preventative: By mixing in olive oil and eau de Cologne into your scalp, then rinsing out, one wouldn’t have to worry about the white flakes. See, even in the past people were vain enough to worry about dandruff.
* Dry Skin: This is probably not a Mediterranean remedy, considering it consists of mixing avocado with olive oil. Supposedly if you mix these two items together and use it as a face mask for 10 minutes, you’ll have moisturized skin.
* Wrinkles: A forerunner to Oil of Olay…if you mix olive oil and lemon, and then rub into your face before bedtime, it is told that it will lessen the effects of aging.
* To Soften the Skin: Oil and Salt mixed together, massaged over the entire body and then washed off, will give you softer skin. Apparently people have always worried about bad skin.
* Fingernails:Olive oil to strengthen your nails? Your soaking in it! Of course you have to then paint your nails with white iodine. Sort of a two step process.
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Green Olive Salad
If you like green olives and bitter food, you might enjoy this recipe.
Ingredients:
1. 250 gr pitted green olives
2. 4 stalks of green onions
3. 3 stalks of green garlic
4. a bunch of parsley
5. about 1/2 cup of roughly chopped walnuts
6. 1 – 2 Tbs pomegranate concentrate (available in Middle Eastern Stores)
7. olive oil
8. Salt, red pepper to taste
Finely chop the green olives, onions, garlic and parsley.
Roughly chop the walnuts.
Mix them well, add salt and red pepper to taste.
Add pomegranate concentrate and olive oil and mix well.
Cover and chill in the fridge for about 2 hours.
Serve along your favourite food.
Decorate with pomegranate seeds and enjoy!
Since pomegranate concentrate is used as a souring agent, if you have trouble finding it you can try substituting with lemon juice. They taste very different but can do the job. One makes the pomegranate concentrate by boiling the pomegranate juice down. Beware of the “fake” concentrates that you might find in the stores.
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Storing olive oil
You already know that olive oil should be placed away from light, but did you know that the refrigerator is a suitable dark spot? It shields oil from spoilage-inducing heat and oxygen.
Although cold temperatures may solidify the oil, they won’t affect its quality. If your cabinets are fairly cool, oil should be fine there, too. In a fridge or a chilly cabinet, it’ll keep about one year opened and two years unopened.
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Arts and Olive Festival in Woodside
Olives, flavored olive oils and vinegars will be available for tasting at the ninth annual Arts & Olive Festival, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 1, at Canada College, 4200 Farm Hill Blvd. in Woodside.
Carol Anglin will give a talk, “The Passionate Olive: 101 Things to Do with Olive Oil,” at 2 p.m. in Building 13, Room 15.
There will be an olive-curing demonstration, a kids’ corner, and food and wine from local vintners and restaurants. Musicians and dancers will perform on two stages.
The festival will feature a designers’ sale of textiles, artwork and home accessories, organized by the Canada College student chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers. The sale will be in Building 13, Room 17.
Admission to the festival is free. For information, call Julie Mooney at 306-3428 or go to www.olivefest.org.
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Army prepares to safeguard Palestinian olive farmers
By Yaakov Katz and Tovah Lazaroff,
To ensure a calm olive harvest this fall in the territories, compared to the last four tumultuous ones, the IDF and the Civil Administration have been working in the last month to ease tensions among settlers, Palestinian farmers and left-wing activists.
“Our goal is to allow the Palestinians to pick every last olive off the trees,” a Central Command officer said of the upcoming Palestinian olive harvest that starts next week and continues until December. “We will do everything it takes to ensure that they are allowed to do this.”
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