Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil, (Hardcover)

from satyridae

This book is going to end up costing me an arm and a leg, I'm sure. I learned a lot, much of it disheartening. That extra-virgin first-cold-press olive oil you bought at the supermarket? Is most likely fit only for burning in a lamp. It's almost certainly not extra-virgin, and it's quite possibly...

from JLsBibliomania

While there was some interesting information, this book went very slowly. There was almost too much history and not enough current information. I'll not look at the olive oil from the grocery store the same way, but this book also wasn't enough to make me stop buying it for general cooking purposes.

from le.vert.galant

While I found a great deal of interesting information about the olive oil industry and the ubiquity of fraudulent oils buried in the text, the generic prose and clichéd characterizations (does every small olive oil producer have an engaging smile, folk wisdom, and a family kitchen run like a Manh...

from dele2451

Being an experienced cook and farmer, I always wondered how grocery stores could afford to sell extra virgin olive oil at such low prices. Thanks to Mr. Mueller I now know the answer and the news isn't pretty.

from ososinpelo

This is, most likely, the very best book I have ever read about the many facets of olive oil, ie. the growing of olive trees, the production of the oil (including the many industrial scams that endeavor to alter bad oils) and the many facets that influence this ancient food's final sale, as well ...