Olive

In the US only the Hispanic population ate olives; they alone knew how to cure them and how to cook with olive oil.

The Mediterranean region. The Mediterranean Diet pyramid.

And then late in the 1980s, when a growing number of Americans began to realize what olive oil could do for them, Californians again noticed the trees that remained.7

and those who much preferred olive oil. And the situation hasn’t changed much since then.

The planting of olive trees and the use of olive oil spread to central Italy from the Greek colonies in Italy – probably from Sicily – between the eighteenth and fifth centuries BCE

Turkey

Olive Pastes

Cured olives

The Ancient Roots of the Olive