Olive : a global history / Fabrizia Lanza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lanza, Fabrizia.

Series:

Edible

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Olive.

Olive--History.

Cooking (Olives).

History.

Physical Description:

125 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 2011.

Summary:

Frescoes in the tombs of Tutankhamen and Ramses II depict vases of olive oil

Plutarch praised Caesar for the African conquest because it assured Rome three million litres of oil per year

In ancient Greece it was commonly believed that only virgins and chaste men were eligible to cultivate olives

The first olive trees in the New World arrived in Hispaniola and Cuba a early as 1520, and were cultivated by monks in Mexico and California

In 1929 a cold winter in Italy killed nearly half the olive trees, and production of olive oil plummeted Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Ancient Roots of the Olive 12

2 Ointments, Anointments and Holy Oil: The Olive in Ritual 29

3 Harvesting, Pressing and Curing 47

4 The Olive Meets the New World 65

5 Good Fat and Bad Fat: The Mediterranean Diet 76.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781861898685

1861898681

OCLC:

712117472