03 Jul
One Olive at a Time
From Pat Veretto, Here's a tip: I heard that American Airlines saved $40,000.00 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class. One olive. $40,000.00 Picture it in your mind.
24 Jun
Olive oil company crushes competitors
By Julia Hollister, A small Sierras foothill olive oil company has risen to the same exalted status as California wines. Apollo Olive Oil Company, in the tiny Yuba County community of Oregon House, received the honor recently at an international competition in Italy where hundreds of olive oils from around the world were judged.
21 Jun
New York is hot spot for olive oil shopping
By Nina Roberts, Although New York is thousands of miles from Spain, Greece, Australia, or any other olive oil-producing country, it offers an outstanding variety of extra virgin olive oil to buy, sample, learn about, and consume. If ‘‘first cold press,’’ ‘‘unfiltered,’’ and ‘‘grassy overtones’’ are phrases that make your mouth tingle with a ‘‘peppery […]
21 Jun
California olive oil producers eye growing market
Jamie Johansson can be found every Saturday at the Chico Farmers’ Market, hawking bottles of his Lodestar Farms olive oil by offering dips of bread.This is how California’s olive oil producers are squeezing their way into a crowded market: one bottle at a time.
20 Jun
Olive oil promoted at D.C. event
More than 200 US food service, supermarket and hospitality professionals were treated to samples of Greek olive oil from the Peloponnese, Crete and Lesvos along with Grecian wines and delicacies in a tourism development-funded ministry event held at the Greek embassy here last week.
