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- James Dyson: "Rosenblum is a fearless Associated Press reporter who loves olive trees. He then wrote a book on the global production of olive oil that I couldn’t put down." source ↗
Summary
Mort Rosenblum's 1996 cultural and culinary history of the olive, tracing its significance from ancient Crete and Rome through the modern Mediterranean. Part history, part travelogue, and part agricultural report, the book covers olive cultivation, olive-oil production, and the political economy of the olive trade across Greece, Italy, Spain, and the Middle East.