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By Judy Schultz, Photo by Chris Schwarz, When I was little, olives were reserved for special occasions. Only New Year’s Eve and visiting priests rated stuffed olives, the queen of all pickles. The advent of Kraft Theatre on television moved olives down a notch or two on the specialness scale. Suddenly, everybody’s mom was using […]

It’s not always the label on the wine bottle that attracts admiring attention at dinner parties. Sometimes it’s on the one containing green-gold extra-virgin olive oil. In the past 7 years there has been a small revolution in the winelands that has nothing to do with grapes. It gathered momentum when Italy’s Giulio Bertrand bought […]

La Tunisie a participé, du 8 au 10 juillet 2007, à la 53ème édition du salon international des produits Agro-alimentaires “Fancy Food Show”, à New York. Une dizaine d’entreprises tunisiennes ont exposé une variété de produits agro-alimentaires, notamment l’huile d’olive extra vierge, en bouteilles, et huiles biologiques, les dattes naturelles fraîches et conditionnées, les semi-conserves, […]

Claire Doole visits a Córdoba olive farmer and finds he is doing his bit to combat global warming. As far as the eye can see, olive groves dot the hills of Andalucia. For centuries, the groves have supplied olives and olive oil – staples of Spanish cuisine – to restaurants and retailers. But over the […]

Les oléiculteurs européens font face à deux grands défis: d’une part, se conformer à la législation environnementale stricte de l’UE, et d’autre part, maintenir leurs prix bas en raison de la pression exercée par la compétition des oléiculteurs étrangers. Désormais, grâce au projet INASOOP (Integrated Approach to Sustainable Olive Oil and Table Olive Production – […]