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Pure Olive Oil and Virgin Olive Oil Are Not the Same - Archive, 1951
From the Guardian Archive/ Food and Drink/ Life and Style/ The Guardian/ theguardian.com
"Rome, 1 January
When is olive oil pure and when is it virgin? According to Spanish, Algerian, French, Greek, Moroccan, Portuguese and Turkish experts, who have just met at the thirteenth International Olive Growers’ Congress in Madrid, olive oil is virgin when it is the produce of one pressed olive crop and pure when it is a mixture of various olives and other lower-grade oils, refined and confectioned into a pale gold odourless liquid. Italy alone, at this congress, wanted no distinction made between virgin and exporters do not, on the whole, make the pure olive oil, because Italy’s big distinction...."
Olive harvesting in the West Bank, 2010. Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
Richard
From the Guardian Archive/ Food and Drink/ Life and Style/ The Guardian/ theguardian.com
"Rome, 1 January
When is olive oil pure and when is it virgin? According to Spanish, Algerian, French, Greek, Moroccan, Portuguese and Turkish experts, who have just met at the thirteenth International Olive Growers’ Congress in Madrid, olive oil is virgin when it is the produce of one pressed olive crop and pure when it is a mixture of various olives and other lower-grade oils, refined and confectioned into a pale gold odourless liquid. Italy alone, at this congress, wanted no distinction made between virgin and exporters do not, on the whole, make the pure olive oil, because Italy’s big distinction...."
Olive harvesting in the West Bank, 2010. Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
Richard