Extra Virgin Summer – Olive Oils
The EVOO for your Summer Recipes While talking with one of our NYC chef friends the other day, he mentioned that ever since he started …
EVOO Protects The Brain
You should be drizzling Extra Virgin Olive Oil on ALL your food. Not only does it tastes so good with almost every dish, but there are …
We Want You To Know Something About Our Olive Oil.
What should I use this oil for? We get this question almost every day. Variations on this question include: Is this oil for cooking? You wouldn’t …
Feasting Everything Full of Antichi
That feeling when a Sarda Nonna cooks you lunch? Amazing. During our visit in Sardegna we had the pleasure of feasting with the Pinna Family, the …
Difficult Harvest for Italian Olive in 2016
The 2016 olive harvest has been challenging in Italy. Ok, not quite as hard as the infamous annus horribilis of 2014, but quite difficult. Overall, …
The Olive Oil Fridge Test is Nonsense
Extra Virgin Olive Oil is a super food essential. Not only does good EVOO have the power to make any dish amazingly tasty, study after …
Stolen il Tratturello
We just received some devastating news. All of the freshly harvested Il Tratturello olive oil has been stolen. Last night, thieves entered Francesco Travaglini’s frantoio (olive oil mill …
Preserving Your Family Land When Everyone Around You is Selling
Did you read about our Sarda feast? While we were eating on the Pinna family’s farm in Sassari, we learned all about the beginnings of …
Abandoned Olive Trees
The rate at which Italian olive groves are being abandoned is rising. The fact is that many Italians are no longer bothering to tend to …
60 Minutes on Extra Virgin Olive Oil Fraud
Italian extra virgin olive oil fraud is going mainstream. We couldn’t be more relived. This week, CBS’s 60 Minutes headlined a story about the seriously …
One Flew Over the Cuoco’s Nest, Insalata di Riso
Here at Gustiamo, we bring our own lunches to share with friends on rustic tables. Last week, Intern Charlie made us some tasty Insalata di …
The Black Year of Italian Olive Oil
To say that the olive harvest in Italy this year was a “bad harvest” would be a great understatement. La Repubblica, one of the most influential …
Gustiamo in Food & Wine: How to Buy Good Olive Oil
We get lots of our extra virgin olive oil advice from Nancy Harmon Jenkins, and we are darn pleased to see that Food & Wine …
Extra Virgin Olive Oil is being sold at $4.00/liter. Is this a joke?
Americans are using more and more olive oil. They are completely in love. Great, you might say. Not really, we say. Why? Simple. This love …
Extrascape, the Big Winner
Extrascape is only 3 years old, but it will grow big and strong. You’ll see. It’s an olive oil (extra virgin, of course) competition. You …
Good Extra Virgin Olive Oils – Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Extra Virgin Olive Oil expert, Nancy Harmon Jenkins, on Zester Daily, acknowledges frauds are rampant, and writes: “It’s true, there’s a lot of bad oil …
Marina Colonna, the Queen of EVOO
This happy group of now close friends share the same minds and hopes. From left: standing: Pietro Hausmann (former Gustiamo, now Coldiretti – Campagna Amica …
Where is the Spanish Olive Oil?
Production of olive oil in Spain was 1.5 million tons last harvest while in Italy it was 480,000 tons. Why do I never see Spanish …
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