Anthropology of Food

In the News . . .

• Olive oil prices to rise as heatwave hits production -- BBCNews (10 August 2022)
  
  
• Northern Italy drought threatens olive oil, risotto rice and passata supplies -- The Guardian (13 July 2022)
  
  
• 7,000 years ago the earliest evidence for the cultivation of a fruit tree came from the Jordan valley -- Arkeonews (19 June 2022)
  
  
• Surprising Side Effects of Eating Olives, Says Science -- Eat This Not That (20 May 2022)
  
  
• Days of wine and olives: how the old farming ways are paying off in Spain -- The Guardian (10 August 2021)
  
  
• Century-old olive trees felled as Spain's farmers try to cut costs -- The Guardian (12 March 2021)
  
  
• Italy's olive oil production drops by a quarter as 'tree leprosy' takes toll -- The Guardian (17 October 2020)
  
  
• Twitter spends all night debating whether olives are good -- The Takeout (05 October 2020)
  
  
• Bacterium with no known cure is killing millions of olive trees in southern Europe -- MPRnews (03 May 2020)
  
  
• Deadly olive tree disease across Europe 'could cost billions' -- BBCNews (13 April 2020)
  
  
• Deadly olive tree disease spreads to France -- The Guardian (09 September 2019)
  
  
• Olives pitting US against EU in global trade fight -- BBCNews (21 February 2019)
  
  
• A plastic alternative from olives? -- BBCprogrammes (25 January 20190
  
  
• The olives helping Greece out of crisis -- BBCTravel (12 November 2016)
  
  
• The olive oil the Romans loved -- BBCTravel (28 April 2017)
  
  
• EU to give 7m euros in fight against olive tree killer -- BBCNews (13 November 2015)
  
  
• Which oils are best to cook with? -- BBCFuture (28 July 2015)
  
  
• Ox Urine to Olive Oil: Fighting Garden Pests Like the Colonists -- LiveScience (05 June 2015)
  
  
• 8,000-Year-Old Olive Oil Found in Ancient Clay Pots -- LiveScience (18 December 2014)
  • Photos: Ancient Pottery Once Held Olive Oil -- LiveScience (18 December 2014)
    
    
• Rule on Serving Olive Oil Stirs Ridicule and Anger in Europe -- James Kaneter, The New York Times (23 May 2013)
  
  
• Storm in a Dipping Bowl Over Europe's Olive Oil Rule -- Harvey Morris, The New York Times (20 May 2013)
  
  
• Origins of the Olive Tree Revealed -- Discovery News (06 February 2013)
  
  
• To Save a Cathedral, Marinate in Olive Oil -- Discovery News (16 January 2013)
  
  

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• An Olive Stone from 150BC Links Pre-Roman Britain to Today's Pizzeria -- Guardian (19 July 2012)
  
  
• Helstosky, Carol F. Garlic and Oil: Food and Politics in Italy. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2005.
  
  
• Lanza, Fabrizia. Olive: A Global History. London: Reaktion Books, 2011.
  
  
• Mueller, Tom. Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil. NY: W.W. Norton, 2012.
  
  
• Olive Oil News -- The New York Times
  
  
• The Olive Oil Times
  
  
• Rising olive oil prices present opportunities for growers and certain concerns for consumers -- The Scout Report, 28 September, 2012 -- Volume 18, Number 39 .
  
  
• Shipwrecks, Amphora and DNA Offer Clues to Ancient Trade -- Past Horizons (23 October 2011)
  

 

Expansion of domestic olive oil trees
 The Olive Trail