Hosting
How to Host an Olive Oil Tasting Party
A simple, unfussy guide to hosting at home — how many oils to pour, what to serve, the order to taste in, and how to keep the notes.
Origins
How a Garden Party Became OlioAtlas
I couldn't find a beautiful tasting printable for my garden party — so I made my own. Then I realized olive oil deserved a Goodreads of its own.
Tasting
You Expect Me To Drink That?
A friend told me at lunch she didn't think olive oil would taste good alone at a fancy oil store. I burst out laughing — that's exactly what I thought too.
Morocco
The Press Without a Sign
There's a kind of olive oil in Morocco that you can't buy anywhere. We went looking for the press where it comes from. It was hard to find.