What is today’s challenge to help us tackle the future? How to make professional technical olive oil testing, currently standardized by an excessive number of rules, into something that is accessible to anyone

Tue 10 November 2020 | Society > Culture > Dixit

Dora Desantis

My mother lived her life immersed in olive oil. My mother’s legacy to me was a secret, unspoken veneration of olive oil

Tue 01 September 2020 | Society > Culture > Dixit

Manuel Vilas

Agriculture remains the true oil of humanity. Without oil we could go on foot, but without food it is impossible to live

Sat 02 September 2017 | Society > Culture > Dixit

Sossio Giametta

The high symbolic value assigned to olive oil throughout millennia is the result of cultural mediation. Had such mediation not existed…

Sun 06 August 2017 | Society > Culture > Dixit

Luigi Caricato

Olive oil is the fruit of dedication, passion and love of who produces it. Only in this way can its taste be unique, authentic and unforgettable

Fri 04 August 2017 | Society > Culture > Dixit

Vincenzo Bono

Looks matter, but what nourishes and satisfies the eye it is not the substance but the image, hence the beauty of food more than its goodness

Sun 25 June 2017 | Society > Culture > Dixit

Rosalia Cavalieri

Sit. Feast on your life

Sat 18 March 2017 | Society > Culture > Dixit

Derek Walcott

Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove

Sat 12 November 2016 | Society > Culture > Dixit

Leonard Cohen

Sharing food is not only taking the bread and breaking it

Sun 01 May 2016 | Society > Culture > Dixit

Enzo Bianchi

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One cannot talk about food without considering the land from which it derives

Sun 07 February 2016 | Society > Culture > Dixit

Enzo Bianchi

Bringing something to our mouth and trying to understand its balance of flavours is a complex experience that goes far beyond the simple gesture of eating

Sun 08 November 2015 | Society > Culture > Dixit

Rosalia Cavalieri

Not that the olive spurns the sun

Sun 25 October 2015 | Society > Culture > Dixit

Richard Wilbur's

Olives are not just fruit, but relics

Sun 11 October 2015 | Society > Culture > Dixit

Predrag Matvejevic

Even when seen from near, the olive shows / A hue of far away. Perhaps for this / The dove brought olive back

Sun 30 August 2015 | Society > Culture > Dixit

Richard Wilbur's

Since oil is, above all, the name of the liquid extract of olives

Sun 16 August 2015 | Society > Culture > Dixit

Thomas Aquinas

… when uncertainty and misery reigned, people survived by eating bread and olives

Sun 24 May 2015 | Society > Culture > Dixit

Petros Markaris