Spanish Olive Oil - Your Definitively Guide to Understand the Complex World of Olive Oil
Your supermarket aisles are stocked with olive oil. Every day, it seems, we hear of the most recent disease it helps prevent or health benefit reaped from it. Mediterranean countries have sworn by it for centuries, but if magazines and newspapers are any indication, its popularity currently outshines that of pashminas, Eminem, and Nicole Kidman [...]
Date: Monday 16, 2009
Truly Spanish Food, in America At least
Food has always been a vital part of Spanish culture and tradition. Families bond over food, and special occasions like weddings, birthdays, graduations and holidays is always dominated by food. Spanish heritage would include century-old recipes, created not only to please the appetite but to maintain the health of the body as well. According to [...]
Date: Thursday 12, 2009
Olive Oil - The Scince behind it.
The use of objective tests to determine an olive oil´s quality has two purposes. On the one hand, it allows for the comparison of the composition of two apparently similar oils. These tests can also be used to …
Date: Wednesday 17, 2008
Armed with NOP Certification, Chambergo Prepares to Enter the American Market
market leader in the commercialization of organic extra virgin olive oils and products have been sold worldwide such as Japan, Germany, Canada … Having received the NOP certification …
Date: Friday 5, 2008
First standards set for olive oil
The regulations define virgin olive oil as “those oils obtained from the fruit of the olive tree solely by mechanical or other physical means … which have not undergone any treatment other than …
Date: Tuesday 25, 2008
Mojama - Spain’s Coastal Treasure
While mojama is still a largely undiscovered delicacy outside of Spain, it has been recognized by specialty stores worldwide for years and is slowly entering more mainstream markets as the demand increases. In Spain, Mojama is most often served in thin, translucent slices, drenched in only the best extra-virgin olive oil, with a glass of your favorite white wine. Elsewhere it has been seen finely grated over a plate of lightly oiled spaghetti, with a chopping of parsley and a glass of red wine.
Date: Thursday 13, 2008
Valle del Jerte - Cherries
Europe´s leading cherry supplier, the Agrupación de Cooperativas Valle del Jerte, is the collective work of fourteen companies whose degree of specialization, organization, and flexibility places them among the most competent European companies in seasonal fruit production and commercialization. The Cooperative are certified suppliers of the Denominación de Origin ¨Jerte Cherry,¨ the symbol Marketuno.com repeatedly [...]
Date: Tuesday 11, 2008
Olive Oil Types
There are four different types of olive oil:
Virgin Olive Oil
Virgin olive oil is obtained only from the olive, the fruit of the olive tree, using solely mechanical or other physical means in conditions, particularly thermal conditions, which do not alter the oil in any way. It has not undergone any treatment other than washing, decanting, [...]
Date: Monday 10, 2008
Spanish Olive Oil - Your Definitively Guide to Understand the World of Olive Oil
Your supermarket aisles are stocked with olive oil. Every day, it seems, we hear of the most recent disease it helps prevent or health benefit reaped from it. Mediterranean countries have sworn by it for centuries, but if magazines and newspapers are any indication, its popularity currently outshines that of pashminas, Eminem, and Nicole Kidman [...]
Date: Monday 10, 2008
Bajo Aragon
The provinces of Zaragoza and Teruel in the region of Aragon are the growing area for this Denomination which protects extra virgin olive oil extracted from the Empeltre (minimum 80%), Arbequina and Royal varieties. Its colour varies between golden yellow and old gold. The flavour is fruity at the start of the harvesting period with [...]
Date: Sunday 14, 2008
Sierra de Cazorla - Olive Oil
Together with Bajo Aragon, this is the newest Denominacion de Origen. The production area is located in the south-east of the province of Jaen in Andalucia. It covers extra virgin olive oils made from the Picual variety which is characteristic of this region. These are a yellowish green, with an intense fruitiness and fresh fruit [...]
Date: Sunday 14, 2008
Priego de Cordoba - Olive Oil
This denominacion protects extra virgin olive oil obtained from the varieties Picual, Picudo and Hojiblanca of a natural region located in the south-east of the province of Cordoba, bordering on the provinces of Jaen and Granada. It includes the Ayuntamientos of Almedinilla, Carcabuey, Fuente Tójar and Priego de Córdoba.
Date: Sunday 14, 2008
Sierra de Segura - Olive Oil
This region is located in the north-east of the province of Jaen. The following Ayuntamientos are all included in the production area: Beas de Segura, Benatae, Chiclana de Segura, Génave, Hornos de Segura, Orcera, La Puerta de Segura, Puente Génave, Segura de la Sierra, Santiago-Pontones, Siles, Torres de Albánchez and Villarrodrigo. This Andalucian designation protects [...]
Date: Sunday 14, 2008
Baena - Olive Oil
The growing region of this denominacion is in the south-east of the province of Cordoba, covering the Ayuntamientos (municipal areas) of Baena, Luque, Doña Mencía, Nueva Carteya and Zuheros, which are situated in olive growing regions called Nevadillo-Campiña and Campiña y Penibética. It protects extra virgin olive oils produced from the varieties Picudo or Carrasqueño [...]
Date: Sunday 14, 2008
Manchego
This historic spanish cheese is named for the Spanish region of La Mancha, also home of Don Quixote. Made of pasteurized sheep’s milk, it has a black gray or buff colored rind with a crosshatch pattern, the interior ranges from stark white to yellow, depending on age. The aroma should suggest lanolin and roast lamb. [...]
Date: Friday 12, 2008
Ybarra and heinz sign a strategic alliance for producing and packing.
The President of Grupo Ybarra, Mr. Jaime Ybarra, and the President of the European branch of Heinz, Mr. Roel Van Neerbos, signed this morning an agreement of strategic alliance between both companies in order to develop different business areas.
Among the multiple possibilities they studied, both companies decided to focus initially in a very specific business [...]
Date: Friday 16, 2007
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