Month: May 2010

International Trade . Trade Show . Wine

InterVin: The Wine Pavilion at Alimentaria Barcelona

On May 29, 2010 by

At 72,000 square feet and 12x bigger than the olive oil space, the wine pavilion at Alimentaria in Barcelona accommodated 30,000 visitors, or about 23% of all attendees.   According to

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International Trade . Trade Show

Shanghai Prelude: 6th Oil China Exhibition 2010

On May 18, 2010 by

As some of you know, my writing is asynchronous with my travel; I try to be fully present when I’m on the road, and then write at the pace of

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International Trade . Trade Show . Travel

Olivaria – Spanish Olive Oil, part 3: So Many Oils, So Little Time

On May 17, 2010 by

Alimentaria in Barcelona devotes about 6,000 square feet to olive oil in the pavilion called “Olivaria”, and in the very back were several banks of long high tables for the

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International Trade . Trade Show . Travel

Olivaria – Spanish Olive Oil, part 2 Olive Juice and Other Ideas

On May 15, 2010 by

We’re at Alimentaria Barcelona, the mega trade show for food and wine held in Spain each year, and as I walked through the 6,000 square foot olive oil showcase called

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International Trade . Trade Show . Travel

Olivaria – Spanish Olive Oil, part 1

On May 10, 2010 by

The outbound Lufthansa flight from Tunisia departed at 2:30 am, and the route had us flying north to Frankfurt to catch a flight to our next destination south to Barcelona. 

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Agriculture . Dining . Historic Site . Travel

Tunisian Epilogue

On May 4, 2010 by

Our time in Tunisia was largely spent outside of metropolitan Tunis.  We drove an average of 100 miles per day to olive groves and olive mills with cultural stops and

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Historic Site . Travel

The Souks of the Tunis Medina

On May 1, 2010 by

The Saturday after our olive oil trade mission I stayed in Tunis an extra day to visit the medina and walk among the ancient souks, but first we joined the

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