Feb 6, 2015 | Olive Oil News
Michael and Maria Hadjichari have worked hard for their Australian dream, to get back into a lifestyle they know and grow olives and pomegranates on a rural farm. Thirty-eight years ago, the Hadjicharis packed two suitcases, picked up their son Andrew and fled from...
Feb 6, 2015 | Olive Oil News, Table Olive News
There are many misconceptions in the culinary world when it comes to cooking oils. Everything from smoke points, health benefits and refining processes have been scrutinised over the years, so Hospitality decided to catch up with a number of movers and shakers in the...
Feb 6, 2015 | Olive Oil News
When most people think of a semi-retirement sea change, they might imagine lazy days, warm weather and perhaps a few chooks. But for Anne and Shane O’Neill it meant leaving the red dirt of Western Australia’s goldfields and buying a newly planted olive...
Feb 6, 2015 | Olive Oil News
The FOE and Olivegrower team regularly have enquiries from people looking for small-batch processors: it’s not uncommon for ‘home’ olive growers to want to produce their own oil, and weather-induced small grove crops are also an increasingly common occurrence. So...
Feb 6, 2015 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News
Despite stricter European controls, the olive oil industry in France is still rife with deception and fraud. In their report released this week, France’s Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) unfolded various deceptive trade...
Feb 6, 2015 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News, Olive Oil Shows
The 2014-2015 harvest year will go down in history as one of the worst for olive farms in certain regions hit hard by bad weather and a fruit fly run amok, but even through all of the challenges of what some are calling the Annus Horribilis (the horrible year), a...
