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Women in Olive Oil
Women in Olive Oil

A closer look at a leading olive oil organization.

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NewsStacy BrooksAugust 28, 2024
Olive Oil Producer Castillo de Canena: Creativity & Heritage
Olive Oil Producer Castillo de Canena: Creativity & Heritage

Get to know the olive oil from an innovative producer in Jaen, Spain.

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ProducerHannah HowardAugust 21, 2024Spain
Women Centric Wildfare Produces Intriguing Olive Oils
Women Centric Wildfare Produces Intriguing Olive Oils

A closer look at a Turkish olive oil producer.

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High Phenolic Olive Oils: A Powerful Superfood
High Phenolic Olive Oils: A Powerful Superfood

A closer look at high phenolic olive oils.

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HealthIsabel PutinjaAugust 7, 2024
Olive Oil: A Vital Part of the Mediterranean Diet
Olive Oil: A Vital Part of the Mediterranean Diet

A closer look at the role of olive oil in the Mediterranean diet.

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EducationIsabel PutinjaJuly 31, 2024
Why Frantoio Grove Relies on Regenerative Agriculture
Why Frantoio Grove Relies on Regenerative Agriculture

A closer look at how an olive oil producer is using regenerative agriculture.

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ProducerStacy BrooksJuly 24, 2024California
How is Flavored Olive Oil Made?
How is Flavored Olive Oil Made?

A closer look at the two methods of flavoring olive oil.

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EducationLisa Waterman GrayJuly 17, 2024
Get to Know Oro di Milas Olive Oil from Turkey
Get to Know Oro di Milas Olive Oil from Turkey

Get to know the couple bringing Turkish olive oil to the US. 

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What is an Olive Oil Sommelier?
What is an Olive Oil Sommelier?

A closer look at becoming an olive oil sommelier.

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4 Italian Resorts for Olive Oil Lovers
4 Italian Resorts for Olive Oil Lovers

Places to stay where you can enjoy estate olive oil in Italy. 

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What Makes Olive Oil Extra Virgin?
What Makes Olive Oil Extra Virgin?

A closer look at the requirements for extra virgin olive oil.

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5 Best California Central Coast Olive Oil Tasting Rooms

Where to taste olive oil on the Central Coast of California.

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Tunisia’s Olive Oil Heritage

A closer look at olive oil production in Tunisia.

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A profile of Bondolio, a California olive oil producer.

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Why Istrian Olive Oil is so Special

A closer look at olive oil production in Istria.

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A profile of Enzo olive oil.

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Séka Hills: Olive Oil from the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation

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Amy Beth Wright

In addition to The Olive Oil Professor, Amy Beth Wright contributes to Wine Enthusiast, StyleBlueprint, Fodors, and many other outlets focused on travel, food, spirits, art, and architecture. She also co-edits Parks & Points, a website dedicated to sharing writing about parks and public lands. She teaches writing at Purchase College in New York and serves on the board of the SUNY Council on Writing. To read more of her work, visit amybethwrites.com and keep in touch on Instagram @amyb1021 and Twitter @AmyBethWright.

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Tina Caputo

Tina Caputo is a California-based writer and editor who spent 15 years editing wine business magazines before setting off on her own to enjoy the rewards and perils of independent writing. Now she covers drinks, food, travel and produce for publications including VinePair, SevenFifty Daily, Sonoma, Visit California and more. She also posts offbeat humor pieces at TinaCaputo.

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Emily Paster

A lawyer turned food writer, Emily Paster brings passion, a sharp intellect and attention to detail to her globally-inspired, Jewish cuisine. She is the author of four cookbooks, including the best-selling Epic Air Fryer Cookbook. Her latest book is Instantly Mediterranean: Vibrant Satisfying Recipes for Your Instant Pot, Electric Pressure Cooker & Air Fryer. Emily lives outside Chicago with her husband and two ravenous teenagers. Find more of Emily’s recipes on her blog West of the Loop.

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Stephanie Rosenbaum Klassen

Stephanie Rosenbaum Klassen is the author of 7 books, including A Little Taste of San Francisco, The Art of Vintage Cocktails, World of Doughnuts, Honey from Flower to Table, The Astrology Cookbook, and the Anti-Bride Guide: Tying the Knot Outside the Box. She has written about food, drink, travel, and the arts for numerous print and online publications, including Kinfolk, KQED, San Francisco magazine, Edible East Bay, Edible Brooklyn, Time Out NY, Chow, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

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Alexandra Kicenik Devarenne

Alexandra Kicenik Devarenne is an olive oil consultant, writer and educator. Author of Olive Oil: A Field Guide, she has written on many aspects of olive oil for both popular and scholarly publications and websites. A trained olive oil taster with over two decades of experience she teaches olive oil tasting classes at institutions here and abroad: Olive Oil Sommeliers of Japan, Culinary Institute of America, IRTA Catalonia, California State and LA County Fairs, UC Davis, and many others. She serves as a judge and advisor for various California and international olive oil competitions.

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Hannah Howard

Hannah Howard spent her formative years in New York eating, drinking, serving, bartending, cooking on a hot line, flipping giant wheels of cheese, and managing restaurants. She is the author of Feast: True Love in and Out of the Kitchen and Plenty: A Memoir of Food and Family. She writes for New York Magazine, Salon, and SELF and teaches food writing classes. She lives in Frenchtown, NJ, and loves stinky cheese.

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Luciana Squadrilli

Luciana Squadrilli is a food and travel writer based in Rome. Senior editor at Food&Wine Italia magazine, she also contributes as a freelancer to many other publications, both in Italy and abroad, mostly about pizza and extra virgin olive oil. She runs the online magazine pizzaontheroad.eu and is a contributor to Culinary Backstreets from Naples. 

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Lisa Radinovsky

Lisa Radinovsky, Ph.D., is an American writer based in Crete, Greece. She has focused on writing about the Greek olive oil world since 2015. The creator of the only general English-language website about Greek olive oil,greekliquidgold.com, she has reached readers in 222 countries. She has also written for publications including Olive Oil Times, Greece Is, Greek Reporter, and TML (The Mediterranean Lifestyle) Magazine. Follow Greek Liquid Gold on Facebook and Instagram.

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Adam Levy

Adam Levy is the “Olive Oil Professor” and founder of the NY International Cheese Competition. Adam is also the founder of the International Beverage Competitions Group and runs beer, wine and spirits competitions in New York, Berlin, Melbourne and Asia/Hong Kong. He is in constant search of all things delicious and shares his knowledge with the world. Born in New York with a lust for travel and a desire to visit producers around the world. He loves his dog Garret Oliver and wears Red to proudly represent Rutgers Sports.

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Amy Sherman

Amy Sherman is editor-in-chief of the Olive Oil Professor. She learned about olive oil while living with a family in Tuscany who produced their own olive oil and has visited olive oil producers in California and Morocco. She has written about food and drink for publications including Martha Stewart, Afar, Gastronomica, Epicurious and Clean Plates. She is also editor-in-chief of sister publications Alcohol Professor, Cheese Professor, Vinegar Professor, and The Chocolate Professor.

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Kristine Mae Bellen

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Kelly Magyarics

Kelly Magyarics, DWS, is a wine, spirits and lifestyle writer, and wine educator, in the Washington, D.C. area. She can be reached through her website www.kellymagyarics.com or follow her @kmagyiarics.

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Lisa Waterman Gray

Longtime freelance food and beverage writer, Lisa Waterman Gray, has sold and educated customers about extra virgin olive oil (and balsamic vinegar) in a Kansas City-area shop, for more than a decade. She also incorporates EVOO into her daily diet. Waterman Gray’s F&B stories have appeared at The Chocolate Professor, The Alcohol Professor and The Cheese Professor as well as Cleanplates.com, Allrecipes.com, CivilEats.com, FoodTank.com, the Kansas City Star, Restaurant Hospitality, and USAToday/10Best. More at lisawatermangray.com.

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Shoshi Parks

Shoshi Parks is a Bay Area-based freelance writer specializing in food, travel and history. Her work has appeared at NPR, Smithsonian, Gastro Obscura, Civil Eats, Vinepair, Vice and a variety of other outlets. Find her online at www.shoshiparks.net.

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Nancy Ash

Nancy Ash, President of Strictly Olive Oil, is an internationally certified taste panel leader who loves teaching olive oil seminars to professionals and consumers alike. Strictly Olive Oil, based in California, provides marketing guidance to olive oil producers and importers.

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Isabel Putinja

Isabel Putinja is a travel and food writer who’s been writing about olive oil since 2014. Her passion for olive oil was sparked after her first experience of a harvest and taste of freshly-pressed oil. Her words and images have been published in major UK newspapers, a dozen in-flight magazines, and online at Lonely Planet, CNN Travel, Time Out, and Euronews. She lives in a stone house in a tiny hilltop village in Istria, Croatia. Follow her online at @isabelswindow

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Stacy Brooks

Stacy Brooks is a Minneapolis-based freelance journalist specializing in food and travel. Her writing has been published in Cheese Connoisseur, Wine Enthusiast, and Hemispheres, and she blogs at Tangled Up In Food.

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Anna Mindess

Anna Mindess is a writer living in Berkeley, California, who focuses on food, culture, and travel. Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, AFAR, Oakland Magazine, Edible East Bay Magazine, among others. In 2018, she was awarded First Place by the Association of Food Journalists for her essay on 1951 Coffee, a refugee-run coffee shop. Anna also works as an American Sign Language interpreter and seeks out Deaf-owned restaurants wherever she travels.

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Kelsey Erin Shipman

Kelsey Erin Shipman is a food and travel writer based in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She earned her MFA at Texas State University and is the founder of The Freehand Arts Project, a non-profit that brings creative writing classes to Texas jails and prisons. You can catch her writing about sake in ParentCo, traveling with dogs in USA Today, and small town life in The Dallas Review. A native Texan, she loves big dogs and breakfast tacos.

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Jacqueline Gualtieri

Jacqueline is a writer and editor living on the Central Coast of California. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Insider, The Slowdown, and HuffPost. Meanwhile, her fiction work has been included in several anthologies, including A Murder of Storytellers and Please See Me. She also works with small businesses to help improve their content marketing strategies and boost their SEO-driven content. When she’s not writing, editing, or strategizing, Jacqueline can usually be found crocheting toys for her nieces and nephews, taking road trips along the California Coast, or volunteering with the local senior dog rescue.

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Rosie Cohan

Rosie Cohan is an award-winning travel writer, who has traveled to over 65 countries, including 17 trips to Turkiye, her “home away from home.” She has worked and lived in Istanbul and led cooking and cuisine tours to Turkiye. Her stories have been published online at GEOEX.com, travelerstales.com, besttravelwriting.com, AboutPlace.org, and in the anthologies, Stories That Need To Be Told by Tulip Tree Press, and BATW’s Travel Stories of Wonder and Change.

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Elisa Shoenberger

Elisa Shoenberger is a freelance writer and journalist in Chicago. She has written about food and drink for Wine Enthusiast, Huffington Post, Rewire, Midwesterner, Farm Flavor, and others. She also has written for the Boston Globe, US News and World Report, WIRED Magazine, and others. She has a B.A. in Latin American History from the University of Chicago, M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an M.B.A. in Marketing and Operations Management from Loyola University Chicago. She makes cheese in her spare time. Twitter: @vogontroubadour and at Mischief and Writing.

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Mary Luz Mejia

Mary Luz Mejia is the first and so far only IICCT Level 3 chocolate taster in Canada. She completed her final level in Italy, the first two in Canada and now leads sensory tutored tastings and classes focusing on Canadian bean-to-bar chocolate across Canada and globally via virtual events. Colombian-born, Canadian-raised Mary Luz Mejia is a twice NATJA nominated freelance food/travel journalist, Gemini-nominated former food TV producer, and chocolate judge. Her work has been published in Saveur Magazine, The Toronto Star, The Globe & Mail, and Toronto Life to name a few. When not writing about chocolate or judging it, she loves savouring good dark milk or dark chocolate single estate varietals, ideally from Peru with fruit and floral notes.

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Rebecca Frey

Rebecca Frey enjoyed a long career as a costume designer and wardrobe stylist before changing course to pursue her passion for food. She is a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu London, where she earned the Diplôme de Pâtisserie (French Pastry Techniques Diploma). She also holds an MSc in Culinary Innovation from Birkbeck, University of London, and a Professional Chocolatier's Certificate from Ecole Chocolat. She has written for websites including Serious Eats and Wine Enthusiast, and also shares recipes via her blog, Baste Cut Fold, and on Instagram: @bastecutfold. A Pennsylvania native and longtime New Yorker, Rebecca currently resides in London.

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Natasha Bazika

Natasha Bazika's writing has taken her around the world. She's covered everything from wine to resorts and dining. She writes for CNN Travel, Travel + Leisure, Vogue Living, and Thrillist Australia. Follow her adventures on @natashagracebazika.

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Hollie Stephens

Hollie Stephens is an award-winning freelance writer originally from London and currently based in New Mexico. Her writing has appeared in VinePair, Pellicle, Hop Culture, and other publications. View more bylines at holliestephens.com, and follow her on Twitter @GlobeHops

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Megan Lloyd

Megan Lloyd is a freelance writer and journalist living in Sevilla, Spain. She specializes in food, drink, travel, and all things Spanish. Her work has appeared in places like TASTE, Eater, and Serious Eats, to name a few. You can follow her edible Spanish adventures on Instagram @meganfranceslloyd or check out her portfolio: www.meganfranceslloyd.com.

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Robin Catalano

Robin Catalano is a travel, culture, and food journalist. Her stories have appeared in National Geographic, Travel + Leisure, TIME, Smithsonian, Conde Nast Traveler, AFAR, Hemispheres, Robb Report, Fodor's, Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Insider, Boston Globe, Albany Times Union, and more. A member of the Society of American Travel Writers and the International Federation of Journalists, she was selected as the summer 2020 Writer-in-Residence at Arrowhead, the historic home of Herman Melville in Pittsfield, Mass. In 2022, she was a finalist for the International Food Wine and Travel Writers Association's Excellence in Journalism award. She lives in the Hudson Valley.

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Cori Solomon

Cori Solomon is an award-winning writer/photographer based in Los Angeles. Her blog, The Written Palette, features eclectic articles about her experiences traveling, discovering new wines, wineries, wine regions, art and history. Cori's background in art plays a role in her writing. She utilizes the art palette visually and verbally. Cori founded LA Wine Writers. She is the President of the IFWTWA, International Food Wine Travel Writers Association. She earned her WSET Level 2 Award in Wines and Spirits, the NASA American Wine Specialist Certification, and the NASA Spanish Wine Specialist Certification. She is also a member of NATJA, SATW, and TravMedia.