High quality extra virgin olive oil is an excellent healthy substitute for other fats in baking. When a recipe calls for a liquid fat such as melted butter or vegetable oil, why not use olive oil? In fact, it might even make your baked goods taste better. Just make sure you use the good kind […]
When we search for a high quality olive oil we look to reputable sources to tell us what is the best. We look up best olive oils and hope our search pulls up a list of extra virgin olive oils for us to buy. But is that the strategy we should use? I would say […]
Some of you may be familiar with the 60 minutes segment on fraudulent olive oil. If you have not seen it, here is the story that aired on 1/3/16. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-agromafia-food-fraud/ Although olive oil fraud is not new, it reveals that large-scale fraud is still persistent in the olive oil industry. In the U.S., the lack […]
Olives are stone fruits and just like fresh squeezed juice, olive oil is the juice of an olive. As there are hundreds of variety of cultivated olives, each produces its own varietal of olive oil with its own unique flavor characteristics. Not only that, but soil conditions, weather, and how the olives are processed impacts […]
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