What's so great about olive oil?

From: Sunset | Date: October 1, 1992| Author: | Copyright information

What's behind the health claims? Is it worth the price? How to choose? Here's a guide

Of all the gifts of heaven to man, it is ... most precious," wrote Thomas Jefferson of the olive during a 1787 tour of southern France and northern Italy. Since before written history, man has husbanded the olive tree for its fruit and oil--or fat--which along with carbohydrates and protein is one of our three food essentials. In many lands in many times, olives were the basic source of oil in volume.

Olives came to California in 1769 with the Franciscan fathers, who planted the trees as ...

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