Extra Virginity

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• Book review: Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller

  It’s easy to take olive oil for granted. After all, it’s one of the oldest food substances around, steeped in human history. Olive trees can live for centuries; some of the trees producing today probably sprouted two millennia ago, about the same tim ... (read full critics)

  dallasnews published on Fri, 23 Dec 2011

• Olive Oil’s Growers, Chemists, Cooks and Crooks

  A few pages into Tom Mueller’s new book, “Extra Virginity,” there’s a funny moment when an olive oil expert holds up a bottle that’s covered with dubious claims: “100 percent Italian,” “cold-pressed,” “extra virgin.” The man shakes his head and says, ... (read full critics)

  nytimes published on Thu, 8 Dec 2011

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  Rich people can eat better

  Check my review in Spanish here: http://lunairereadings.blogspot.com/2012/03/extra-virgi…
  This book describes the frightening nets of corruption that exist around the olive oil market. The author tells about his experiences tasting different kinds of oils, and finding the superma ... (continue)

  Check my review in Spanish here: http://lunairereadings.blogspot.com/2012/03/extra-virgi…
  This book describes the frightening nets of corruption that exist around the olive oil market. The author tells about his experiences tasting different kinds of oils, and finding the supermarket oil very gross tasting and even dangerous for the health. He states that the olive oil producers cut the good oil with other seeds and chemically wash the bad odors. He says that there are still very few honest oil makers, but they struggle to survive as their oils are really expenisve. He describes his visits to some of these honest oil makers, as well as the terrible consequences of bad oil marketing: fake oil has killed 30 times more people than fake alcohol. Finally, he gives some advice on buying good oil: buy at the mill, preffer dark glass bottles and look for recent harvesting dates.

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• English Books
• Others 256 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0393070212
• ISBN-13: 9780393070217
• Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company
• Pub date: Dec 05, 2011

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