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A Chat About Olive Oil & Cooking w/ Zingerman’s Deli Chef Rodger Bowser

Zingerman’s of Ann Arbor, Mich., has long been a trusted source for superior foods and ingredients. It’s also hailed as one of the best delicatessens in the country. (Check out their online shop for great holiday gifts!) So we were … Continue reading

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From Crusty Bread to Ice Cream – 10 Easy Ways to Enjoy Good Olive Oil

We keep a cruet of our extra virgin olive oil at the dinner table. We drizzle the oil on food. It brings out flavor and depth. Fruity Arbequina, for example, draws out  the sweetness of a porterhouse steak. Our grassy … Continue reading

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“Our Most Special Olive Oil”: Our Limited Reserve is Coming Soon!

Our harvest and milling crews have been working flat out since the fourth week of October, gathering olives and crushing them into extra virgin olive oil. Within a matter of days, a carefully selected batch of that oil will be … Continue reading

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Olive Oil is Perishable, So Here’s How to Keep It as Fresh as Possible

A fan named William emailed us a couple days ago: “Do you have any info on typical shelf life for your olive oil, and also the best way to keep an open bottle fresh?” Great question, we replied, and offered … Continue reading

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It’s Olive Harvest Time! A Robustly Flavored Oil On Tap, Our Rancher Says

We began our harvest on Saturday. Our harvest teams fanned out into the olive groves and began picking olives and trucking them to our northern California mill. There, our milling team is crushing the olives into extra virgin olive oil. … Continue reading

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Others Factors Versus Only “First Cold Press” Are Key When Picking Olive Oil

A topic we get asked a lot about about is the term “first cold press.” You see it on bottles of extra virgin olive oil, including our own. Large olive oil producers overseas also bill their oil as first cold … Continue reading

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An Olive Oil’s Color Won’t Tell You If It’s Good, But Will Tell You Other Things

Next month we begin our harvest. Our harvest teams will gather our olives and rush them to our northern California mill, where Master Miller Bob Singletary and his crew will crush them into extra virgin olive. So now seems like … Continue reading

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Yes You Can Deep Fry with Extra Virgin Olive Oil – Try French Fries or Churros!

Deep frying with extra virgin olive oil is a hot topic. We know because we hear the myth that it can’t be done. Mediterranean cooks, however, have been deep frying foods in extra virgin olive oil for a long time. … Continue reading

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Tips on How to Avoid Burning Extra Virgin Olive Oil While Frying

We’ve set off the kitchen smoke alarm many times. It might be homemade pizza in the oven, French toast in the frying pan, etc. Which raises a topic worth revisiting: When frying with extra virgin olive oil, how do you … Continue reading

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Top 10 List: Fruits that are Good Candidates for Grilling

We go through dozens of peaches this time of year. We make peach ice cream, peach pie, peach barbecue sauce, and peach smoothies. We like peaches raw, too. They’re also our go-to fruit for grilling. We’ll halve each peach, brush … Continue reading

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