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Olive Oil Academy, in collaboration with ALMA – The International School of Italian Cuisine, is presenting a series of courses for the olive industry. Professional Olive Oil Sommelier: a top-level qualification course designed for those who wish to become true experts in the selection and multiple uses of olive oil. The course aims to train…
European schoolchildren could be given subsidized olive oil if a proposal from Spanish Members of the European Parliament goes ahead. Existing EU schemes promote consumption of milk and fruit in schools and members say a similar one should cover olive oil. Iratxe García Pérez, Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto, Alejandro Cercas and Ricardo Cortés Lastra tabled the…
The British banger is the latest food to get a healthy makeover courtesy of the Mediterranean diet – a new sausage made with olive oil is set to hit UK supermarket shelves next year. Scan Foods UK – better known for Swedish meatballs – has developed a range of pork sausages under the brand Olive…
Olive trees in the Jerusalem garden revered by Christians as the place where Jesus Christ prayed before he was crucified have been dated to at least 900 years old, a study showed. The results of tests on trees in the Garden of Gethsemane have not settled the question of whether the gnarled trees are the…
Olive oil and olive pomace oil imports into the United States are still steadily climbing, achieving 7 percent growth over last year, the latest International Olive Council (IOC) figures show. They totalled 290,227 tons for the first 11 months of the 2011/12 season) and are expected to top 300,000 tons once the September figures are…
Olive oil and honey stalls top the lists of exhibitors at Global Village this season as the region’s leading cultural, shopping and entertainment family outdoor destination attracts customers to the wide range of homegrown dried fruits, nuts and crops. This season, in a Dubai first, the Palestinian pavilion will be showcasing an oil presser, so…
Indian Olive Association President VN Dalmia has announced that the country’s olive oil import volumes are expected to reach 10,000 tons this financial year, representing a jump of nearly 45% over the previous year. The surge in imports comes on the back of strong growth in consumption of olive oil in major Indian cities such…
While it may look like something slapped together in an Intro to InDesign class, this vegetable oil packet from Subway makes for a good demonstration on how to obscure information you need to include but don’t really want people seeing. There’s the obvious size differential, with the most prominent words on the packet being “OLIVE…
Award-winning Chilean olive oil manufacturer Olisur is aiming to expand its international market, which already includes the United States and Canada. According to Just-Food, the company has received its first order from Korea and is now developing its presence in the highly competitive markets of Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Spain’s Agriculture Ministry forecast a 58% plunge in olive-oil production this year, predicted lower wine output and cut its outlook for corn. Olive-oil production is predicted to slump to 673,700 metric tons from 1.6 million tons last year, the ministry wrote in a report on its website. Spain is the biggest exporter of olive oil,…