California wrote some of the world's toughest olive-oil labelling rules to protect honest producers from imported fakes — the story of why…
Why does a Californian olive farmer struggle while cheaper imported oil floods the shelves? The answer is a tangle of subsidies, scale…
The can of black olives on your pizza is a California invention: a green olive turned black by air and lye, not…
California adopted international olive-oil grade standards to bring order to a booming industry. Here is what the grades on the label actually…
California's growers pivoted from canning olives to oil, planting hedgerows of Spanish Arbequina that a machine can harvest — a shift that…