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The color and quality of the olive oil
The colour of an olive oil is not linked to quality or flavor, contrary to what people think. It is true that food enters into our eyes and the fact of finding a greener olive oil leads us to think it may be of a better quality. In this case, the colour of the olive...
Olive oil in Arab culture : origins and recipes
The origin : The origin of olive oil is hard to explain because it’s very antique. Indeed, the olive oil has more than 4000 years, and we may find works explaining more about the olive oil more than 6000 years ago. The civilisations which bordered the Mediterranean...
Designation of Origin Siurana: the flavour of Tarragona
Siurana is the designation of Origin from Tarragona. This sort of olive oils are produced in different areas of southern Tarragona, at southern Catalonia. Some of those areas are Rivera d’Ebre or Alt camp, among others. This sort of olive oils have received different...
The Olive oil in France:
Today, in France, this mythical fruit full of history, is put in light. Quite as big vineyards, the olive oil saw itself attributed a Controlled Label of origin (AOC), according to its region of production. At present, we count moreover eight varieties of olive oil...
Venta del Barón, among the best olive oils
Venta del Barón, an extraordinay Extra Virgin olive oil from Spain, remarkable for its intense fruity green olive with herbaceous notes, peppermint, almond shells, banana and apple. With a keepsake of vegetables such as tomatoes and artichoke. The entrance is sweet,...
Olive oil, the perfect makeup remover
Besides having culinary uses olive oil, it is a perfect a perfect natural makeup remover. There are natural alternatives and options to remove the makeup without resorting to chemicals products. Olive oil is one of them, it is useful for all skin types, but especially...
Oro del Desierto, probably the best organic olive oil in the world
No doubt there are many ecologic extra virgin olive oils, but few that have been recognized in awards and world competitions as Oro del Desierto. This is an exceptional ecologic oil containing the following varieties: Arbequina, Hojiblanca and Picual. From Almeria...
Olive oil Tips: Match the Arbequina variety
Would you know distinguish the Arbequina variety olive oil? To take advantage of it, we offer to you some tips coming from Juan Pozuelo. Sprinkle some cinnamon and brown sugar to some sliced oranges. Mix and add a few small leaves of mint or peppermint and to all this...
Picual variety and their possibilities
Between the large number of existing olives, Picual variety wins widely in Spanish territory and all around the world. Specially in Jaen, where it occupies a 95% of the olive territory. The main reason why is the most common variety comes from their properties and the...
Olive oil and its varieties
There are many types of olive oils, classified by the variety of olive, where they come from, smell, taste, color ... However, the four most common and that we will meet at our usual place of purchase, are: Extra Virgin Olive Oil Virgin Olive Oil Olive oil Pomace...
Olive oil : a base ingredient in many recipes
Olive oil taste is a very refined product with exceptional quality. You should know that olive oil can be used not only in salads, but also in your dishes as a marinade, in seasoning, or even in baking. An easy recipe that you can make is marinated olives with herbs...
The olive tree: a tree with strong symbolism
In the Bible The olive tree is often quoted in the Bible. This tree is thus crowned. The most known story is the one where the dove of Noé brings with her an olive branch in its beak, meaning the end of the disaster. What had deserves it to be a peace symbol. Besides,...
Olive oil, health informations
An idea received would that olive oil is good for health, this idea is true. However, we must not believe that the only olive oil consumption is good for health. But its consumption causes positive effects on health but there are misconceptions about the effects on...
Olive oil has health benefits
Olive oil has health benefits Should not see olive oil like a simple oil that we use only for to cook, it has a lot of useful side. The principal is the fact that it’s good for health, indeed the consumption to olive oil allows to prevents harm oxidizing agents. Olive...
The market of olive oil in Spain
Olive oil is a product very important in the European gastronomy, indeed we can see it’s the basis of many recipes in a lot of gastronomy, and not only in Spain, where its production is very important. We can see that the market of olive oil is very important in...
Olive oil in antique Greece.
In Greece olive tree appeared thanks to goddess of wisdom Palas Athénée who has given rise to soil a fruit which has important virtues for the man. The most important of these virtues is that this fruit will allow to the men to feed. This example illustrates well how...
Fabrication of Extra Virgin olive oil in Spain
The fabrication of Extra virgin olive oil is a much more complex process than we can imagine, indeed there are really a lot of steps to follow before you really get the precious liquid. To obtain olive oil, there are 4 important steps : - The first phase is named «...
Olive tree in the Greek culinary culture
Greece is a country which enjoys a strong sunshine all the year, which allows to have a strong olive tree culture, also being a part of the greek culture itself. Olive oil is the basis of many greek culinary preparations and meals. In Greece, there exists more than...
The nutritional value of the olive oil: benefits for your health
The olive oil is the extract of fats form the fruit of the olive tree. Moreover, as the majority of the foods, it is an essential nutritional source for human beings. Those olive oils contain few satured fats but also a big quantity of oleic acids. Furthermore, it...
Cooking with olive oil
Cooking with olive oil some advice : Firstly before cooking with olive oil, you have to choose a good olive oil. Indeed it has some elements : - A little bit or not of fatty acids - Fatty acids which are heat resistant You have to know that olive oil is the only one...
Major ingredient of the Mediterranean cooking : Olive oil
The olive oil and the méditerranée: a particularly narrow relation! Indeed, it is from there where the story of the olive oil began, in the Mediterranean Basin. The story continues since millenniums and today, it is the major ingredient of the Mediterranean cooking....