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Olive oil is really a fat extracted from the fruit of the Olea europaea (olive tree), a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean region, exactly where whole olives are pressed to create essential olive oil. Olive oil is made of the crushing and after...

By Laurie Triplette ldtriplette@aol.com In this four-part series, food writer Laurie Triplette will focus on demystifying olive oil, which has been a darling of the American food world for years. Triplette claims that the world of olive oil contains...

The history of olive oil is as colorful and rich as the history of the world, paralleling the history of mankind in the Mediterranean. Before 2000 BC, dynastic Egyptians imported olive oil from Crete, Syria and Canaan and oil was an important item of...

Here is the latest in International Art News from The New York Times. ArtsBeat: Broadway’s ‘Wicked’ Soars Past $1 Billion at the Box Office The musical is one of only three Broadway shows to reach that milestone and the fastest to get there, according...

Today’s compendium begins, once again, with that latest on the health crisis consuming a continent, opening with this from the Guardian: Ebola outbreak: Congo becomes fifth country with confirmed cases Health minister says up to 15 people may have...