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With over 600 varieties of olive in this world, why limit ourselves to just the regular supermarket olive oils? We have oil adventures to do, so let’s get out there and explore!

There’s more to this story though. Not only do we have a wide range of olive varieties, each season’s harvest and pressing yield oils with unique characteristics, like wine.

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Comparing olive oil to wine again, even if the same variety of olive is grown in different places, the oil from one place will have a unique taste due to soil and microclimate characteristics. Another parallel between olive oil and wine is that the ancients crushed olives like grapes: They stomped on them with their feet. Later, the Romans invented the screw press which was much more efficient at extracting oil. Still later, modern machinery made the process of oil extraction relatively easy, and now few oils from large producers come from the old style presses.

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When speaking of olive oil, the term “virgin” comes up. What is virgin olive oil?
The first pressing of olives involves crushing them into a paste and extracting the oil through a cold process, either through the older pressing method or through modern centrifugal force methods. The oil that results is not only considered virgin, but extra virgin, and this is the best oil that can be made from the crushed olives.
Plain olive oil is a mixture of extra-virgin and refined oils. Don’t expect any culinary adventures from this! Gourmet olive oils, unless flavored with herbs and spices, are always the extra-virgin grade.

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January 29, 2004

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You may have noticed that olive oil, even the non-virgin grade, is always more expensive that other cooking oils. One of the reasons for this is that picking olives is still very labor-intensive because the only way to ensure the best quality oil without damaging the trees is to pick the olives by hand. But since olive oil is forever in demand, some marketing tricks have been pulled throughout the years that try to make poor quality oil look good. Messing with terminology has been a problem, so the International Olive Oil Council (IOOC) was formed to make terminology more consistent.

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