Pressing Times, The Olive Oil Source Newsletter

Happy, Healthy Holiday Shopping

With the holidays right around the corner, it’s a great time to avoid that dreaded “What will I get for everyone this year?” feeling. It’s also a time to stock up on unique hostess gifts that can be enjoyed throughout the season. Read more >>

Facial Masks with Olive Oil

– by Carol Firenze, The Passionate Olive

Want your skin to positively GLOW? Take some advice from Isabella Cortese, an accomplished Venetian noblewoman whose valuable beauty tips are over 400 years old. In her popular book, I Secreti (The Secrets), published in 1561, she touted the virtues of olive oil. Developing her Read more >>

The Sciabica Family: Four Generations of Passion

– as told to Caroline J. Beck

You would have to go back to old world history to find a family with deeper ties to the olive oil business, but the California olive oil industry has to look no further than Modesto to Read more >>

November Pressing Matters

Winter Squash in All Its Glory

– by The Olive Oil Source Kitchen

In the fall, when the clock turns back and temperatures drop, we start to crave rich and hearty fare. But it can still be healthy and really good for us if we use good ingredients full of antioxidants and vitamins, like farm stand fresh winter squashes, nuts and olive oil. This special dish, easy to prepare in advance, is a perfect vegetarian addition to grace any holiday table. Read more >>

Olive Oil Yield is Not a Guarantee: It's a FACT.

– by Antoinette Addison

It’s always exciting to bring in your first harvest. The orchard produced a healthy crop and you have high expectations of how much oil you’ll get at the mill. But, veterans know that calculating oil yield from acreage is not a simple science. It involves many factors and oftentimes even seasoned producers can enthusiastically overestimate Read more >>

Announcing A New Brand of Olive Oil: Yours

– by Antoinette Addison

It is common to read movie reviews before opening night, or book reviews before they hit store shelves, but not so common to review a product that hasn’t been created yet. But we can report on it here because the product we are announcing is “your own extra virgin olive oil or vinegar”! And it is simply a personal combination of your favorite extra virgin olive oil or vinegar, a bottle design of your choosing and a custom label that makes it Read more >>

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