A handful of fresh olives in a traveller's bag can carry the pest that ruins an entire industry. This is why border…
Lebanon has pressed olive oil for millennia — the Phoenicians shipped it from Sidon and Tyre. A look at one of the…
From bare hands to shaking poles to straddle harvesters, how you pick an olive shapes the oil in the bottle. A tour…
Jordan is a small olive producer that almost nobody outside the region has tasted — because nearly all of its oil is…
Lebanon's village olive presses are the hinge of the whole crop. Understanding how a small mill actually earns its living explains why…