Gifting
Olive Oil Is Showing Up in Some Unexpected Places
Olive oil is becoming the new host gift, and you'll find it at Nordstrom, boutiques, and big-box stores. Where it's turning up and how to pick a fresh bottle.
Harvest
The New Harvest
From the first green olives in October to the bottles that reach our shelves in spring, here's how this year's oil makes its way from the grove to the table.
Tasting · Plus
Off Notes
What each olive oil defect smells and tastes like, where it comes from, and how to start tasting for them at home.
Craft
From Stone to Spin
Eight thousand years of getting oil out of an olive, from stone rollers and beam presses to the centrifuge that makes most olive oil today.
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.