Thousands visit Alimentaria’s Olive Oil Bar

More than 140,000 people – a third of them from beyond Spain – visited the Alimentaria food and drink trade fair in Barcelona and organizers say more than 5,000 of them tried olive oils in the olive oil tasting bar. Held March 31 to April 3 and billed as fourteen shows in one biennial fair, Alimentaria’s organizers say it attracted more than 600 buyers from countries in Asia, Europe, the United States and Latin America.