by Alexandra Kicenik Devarenne | May 7, 2012 | AOCS, General
This article originally appeared in Olive Oil Times. Olive oil analysis received more than its fifteen minutes of fame at this year’s annual meeting of the American Oil Chemists’ Society (AOCS) 30 April to 2 May in Long Beach, California. The weekend before the...
by Alexandra Kicenik Devarenne | Feb 15, 2012 | General, Olive Oil Education, Olive Oil Standards, Olive Oil Tasting
January 2012 is likely to be remembered as a watershed month in the US olive oil industry. It seems that at long last, we can glimpse a light at the end of the tunnel. The catalyst for much of what happened was unquestionably Tom Mueller and his book Extra Virginity:...
by Alexandra Kicenik Devarenne | Nov 17, 2011 | General, Growing Olives, Language of Olive Oil
The olive oil world is being tempted to follow the wine world down the path of questionable language: it’s time to decide if that is an “olive varietal,” or an “olive variety.” This was brought to my attention by Mike Madison, Yolo County...
by Alexandra Kicenik Devarenne | Nov 10, 2011 | Australia Trip Oct 2011, General, Olive Oil Standards
Where do we go from here?— Legal standards and chemistry were only part of the ground covered at the Australian Olive Association National Conference. A significant amount of time was devoted to the world of promotion and marketing, and how this informs the efforts at...
by Alexandra Kicenik Devarenne | Nov 6, 2011 | Australia Trip Oct 2011, General, Olive Oil Standards
Where the Olive Oil Industry is Now, and How We Got Here— The theme of the Australian Olive Association’s (AOA) 2011 national conference, “Restoring Trust in the Trade of Olive Oil,” was a logical choice in the year that saw approval of a new olive oil standard in...
by Alexandra Kicenik Devarenne | Oct 31, 2011 | Australia Trip Oct 2011, General, Growing Olives, Olive oil processing, Olive Oil Tasting
The Mornington Peninsula is like the Sonoma or Napa County of the Melbourne area. The landscape is lovely, and they produce first-rate wine, olive oil and other good things to eat. After our visit to the “big is beautiful” world of Boundary Bend, Dan...
