The famous names on olive-oil bottles — Carbonell, Bertolli, Carapelli — mostly belong to a handful of giant companies. How the world's…
In 2009 a Seattle wine merchant paid to air-freight freshly pressed olive oil straight from a Tuscan estate — an extravagance, maybe,…
Australia's boldest olive experiment was industrial scale: thousands of hectares of hedgerow olives, machine-picked. Its near-collapse shows both the power and the…
Western Australia grew from a handful of olive-oil producers to hundreds, many of them backyard growers. Here is what that boom says…
Afghanistan's Nangarhar olive groves were planted in a hopeful mid-century push, then wrecked by war. Their fitful revival is a study in…