Preventive medicine: ode to olive oil

By: Dr David Katz

My wife and I are recently back from co-hosting an Oldways-sponsored culinary travel adventure through Sicily. We ate, we drank, we toured, we made friends, we saw the dual beauties of nature and ancient civilization, and then – inevitably – we ate and drank some more. The trip and the cuisine were both memorable in many particulars, but I will focus here on one: olive oil.