Olive-Wizard.com
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Olives are a quintessential fruit, a global crop grown on trees that thrive in tropical and subtropical climates. There are literally thousands of varieties of olive, from shrub-like olive trees to the towering olive trees in the Sabine Hills of Italy. Some of these ancient trees are over a millennium in age (and 21 feet in circumference), bearing the same amazing fruit they bore during the rule of the Roman Empire.
The birth of the olive tree is lost in time, and its etymology predates written history. The family history of olive plants is as ancient as Biblical manuscripts. Olive plants are referenced in depictions of events that took place thousands of years B.C., like the story of Noah’s Ark, where an olive branch is retrieved by a dove as a sign of the floodwaters receding. But, despite its ageless legacy, the olive and its byproducts are at the heart of modern traditions—especially the art of cooking.
Whether as ingredients in cold dishes, like pasta salads with diced olives, or as the base of something a little bit more exotic, like sweet olive jams or savory dips, the olive continues to have an undeniable impact on cooking. Perhaps this is why it’s so popular. The top olive producing countries in the world have a combined 22 million acres of olive groves. Olive oil alone accounts for 2.3million metric tons of production every year.
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