The olive oil and the méditerranée: a particularly narrow relation!
Major ingredient of the Mediterranean cooking : Olive oil
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.
Two criteria make of this product an major element of this cooking: its flavor and its nutritional content.
Nowadays, we find almost in all of the Mediterranean typical meals, some olive oil. For example, we have the » Mediterranean salad » in which, we find a lot of olive oil there.
And, it also has a dietary aspect, given that this oil allows to follow a balanced diet, and besides, is a help tool for the prevention of in particular cardiovascular diseases, as for example the cholesterol.
The Oracle of Delfos said that the one who gives the city the best gift would be the one to name it.
Poseidon build a river of salted water and Atenea created the olive tree.
Atenea won and the olive tree was the symbol and the most representative icon of the Greek and the Roman empires.
From the the olive tree humans extract the juice of the olives, the olive oil.