olive oil
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Italy's olive oil prices halve as Europe's harvest grows
Extra virgin prices in Italy have fallen by roughly half in a year as record stocks pile up and a bigger regional harvest pushes the whole market lower.
Pan con tomate recipe: the bread Catalonia doesn't cook
Four ingredients, no stove beyond the toaster, and no real cooking at all. The whole dish rests on the bread, the ripe tomato and, above all, the olive oil you choose to finish it.
Spanish olive oil prices slide as farmers demand storage rule
Extra virgin trades below €3.20 a kilo at origin, and Spain's four big farm organisations want Madrid to order mills to hold back part of a 1.6-million-tonne crop.
South Africa crowns its Top 10 olive oils for 2026
The Absa Top 10 Olive Oil Awards named its 2026 winners in Cape Farms, days after De Rustica became the first South African producer to top an International Olive Council category.
Greece's olive oil crop rebounds as prices sink below cost
Growers are heading for their biggest harvest in four years, but mill-gate prices in Crete have slipped under €4 a kilo, and some say they are selling at a loss.
Morocco's bumper olive harvest could halve oil prices
Growers in Ouezzane, Chefchaouen and Ksar El Kebir expect 40 to 80 percent more fruit this year, with oil prices set to fall below MAD 35 a liter.
Fettunta recipe: Tuscany's new-oil toast, done right
Fettunta is the simplest test of new-season olive oil: toasted bread, garlic, salt, and as much green, peppery oil as the bread will hold.
Italy's olive oil stocks surge as new harvest floods in
Italian reserves are up 47% on last year just as Spain and Greece start pressing a bigger 2026 crop, pushing early prices down across the Mediterranean.
Jaén olive oil cooking prize goes to Marta Oti of Fontané
Eight cooks, eight oils from the province and 75 minutes each in San Sebastián. The provincial government that pays the €8,000 also chairs the jury, and it has not said what was on the winning plate.
Andalucia olive oil forecast jumps 29% for 2026/27
Spain's farm ministry puts the region's new campaign at 1.26 million tonnes, recovering most of what a dry spell cost the previous harvest.
Greek olive oil prices fall by half as harvest begins
Extra virgin oil trades at €3.90 to €4.20 a kilo at origin, against €9.50 at the peak. Growers say their costs have not followed, and Spain still sets the price.
Lemon olive oil cake recipe for new-season oil
A two-bowl Mediterranean cake built to show off the first green oil of the year, with lemon to carry the bitterness rather than hide it.
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