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Extra Virginity: Writer Tom Mueller’s New Exposé of Olive Oil Fraud
Tom Mueller calls the United States “an oil criminal’s dream.” Mueller, an investigative journalist, is the author of an important new book that digs into the fraud that’s wreaking havoc in the olive oil business – in this case, smelly, … Continue reading
A Look Back At Our 2011 Harvest and the Robust Olive Oil It Produced
Our fall olive harvest was filled with sunshine and long working hours, Adam Englehardt tells us. Adam heads our farming operations. He and his harvest team worked two 12-hour shifts every day, seven days a week, during the harvest. It … Continue reading
Baking a Better Holiday: a Primer On Baking w/ Olive Oil – Part 2
Like wine, different extra virgin olive oils deliver different flavor profiles, including when you use the oil in baking a cake or cookie. Olive oil can make other contributions to baked goods, too, such as helping ensure a dish is … Continue reading
Baking a Better Holiday: a Primer On Baking w/ Olive Oil – and Skipping Butter
A topic we find gets lots of interest: how to use extra virgin olive oil in baking, including how to substitute it for butter in a recipe. Olive oil is lower in saturated fat than butter. Plus, it adds a … Continue reading
Our Limited Reserve Extra Virgin Olive Olive Oil is Now Available!
We’ve been fielding dozens of calls in recent days from people asking when our Limited Reserve extra virgin olive oil will be available to order. We’ll, it’s now available! Our milling team fired up the bottling line last Thursday and … Continue reading
Fresh Off the Press: Our Limited Reserve Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Our harvest and milling crews are working day and night picking olives and crushing them into extra virgin olive oil. Soon, a select batch of that oil will be used to make a special oil: our Limited Reserve extra virgin … Continue reading
Our 2011 Harvest: A More Robust Olive Oil & Good Weather (So Far)
It’s harvest time. So we visited our Artois ranch in northern California. There, we climbed aboard one of our olive harvesters to hitch a ride with Adam Englehardt. Adam heads our farming operations. As we rumbled through the olive groves, … Continue reading
Our Miller Bob Talks About Sorting & Tasting Oil From 800 Truckloads of Olives
Our head miller Bob Singletary is a pioneering figure in California’s extra virgin olive oil industry. Bob has been crushing olives and making olive oil for more than three decades. We asked Bob about his job and our fall harvest, … Continue reading
