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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 […]

By Jolene Ketzenberger, Olive oil just isn’t exotic anymore. Though it trumped vegetable oil as the U.S. consumer’s cooking oil of choice nearly five years ago, today’s oil options have expanded far beyond corn, canola and even extra-virgin olive oil. For healthfulness and versatility, says Indianapolis gourmet shop owner Jack Stearns, grapeseed oil is hard […]

August 25th, 2007 10:00am – 5:00pm Downtown Paso Robles City Park www.pasoolivefestival.com   * Free Olive Oil and Olive product sampling * Producers from all over California * Olive Oil Tasting lead by the California Olive Oil Council * Culinary Row serving great food * Wine & Beer Tasting * Open Olive Dish Cooking Contest […]

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 […]

By Zoe Williams, Sales of extra-virgin olive oil hit a record £71m last year, which means it now accounts for more than 30% – the largest share – of the UK oil market. These figures have led some people to conclude that we’re adopting “a healthier, Mediterranean diet”. There are as many things wrong with […]