Category: Agriculture

Here is a window into a smaller producer in Morocco. Enjoy!

Vinegar, Resplendent

I participated in a comparative vinegar tasting this morning, and as I was clearing the tasting cups captured the sun on some of the samples.    

Shabbat Shopping at Shuk Mahane Yehuda

Ah, Friday.  After an aggressive schedule all week I was grateful for a late start and a half day of trend shopping on the agenda.  Friday is, after all, the

TerraOlivo 2010 Announces Results

The Olive Oil Times has just published an exclusive  article of my coverage of the Competition and Congress at TerraOlivo 2010.   You can read it here, “Israel Hosts TerraOlivo

TerraOlivo, Day #3 – All in Good Taste

I was mighty impressed by the coordination of the TerraOlivo 2010 program.  Moshe Spak, the organizer introduced me to Leo, who was in charge of the samples and set up.

TerraOlivo Day #2: Variety is the Spice of Life

The soft sschick of protective glass covers sliding off official blue tasting glasses; the brusque schqqq schqqq schqqq of  precisely warmed olive oil being aerated across official palates; the particular

Tunisian Epilogue

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

Breakfast with Methuselah, part 2

The day was bright, but cool, and walking into the shade of this old stand of dark and silver-leafed olive trees was downright chilly.  Those of us who arrived early

Insight into Tunisian Olive Oil Production, part 2

We stood outside in a small courtyard surrounded on three sides by the typically bright white walls and blue trimmed doors / blue painted ironwork of Tunisia, which here were

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