i love olive oil (your favorite oils, and the olives they're made from)

but is it really olive oil

you can rearrange the letters of olive to form veoil or as I like to call it v.e. oil (very expensive oil)

i use "spanish" olive oil from TJs for drizzling and their regular extra virg oo for various cooking needs
or i just wring the oil from the olives with my bare hands if i am having guests over

sometimes I'll invite guests to take their shoes off and stomp olives in the bathtub

for everday cooking i use industrial-grade extra virgin from Italy @ $9 per liter

for bread dipping I buy better stuff. favorite brand is Frantoia, Italian, not their most expensive, green, rich & fruity. $22/litre. my son sponges this stuff up so I don't go more expensive,

like to try other oils, Spanish is good esp Arbequina which is lighter, golden, buttery

Right now I fucks with Alidoro Extra Virgin Olive Oil because it was $3.99/liter at the nearby Mexi-mart. Reading this thread and trying to find out about it, I found this site: http://www.delphifruits.com/test-results.html. More than passable for the price.

ASSITOL

I always thought quality EVOO was not for cooking/heating. Its too expensive, and too strongly flavoured. Use the lighter 2nd-3rd press for cooking (or really, dont use OO at all, I use ricebran oil it has a nice high smoke point). EV is purely for drizzlin/dressings/preserving antipasto bits.

IMHO, anyway. Also, I can taste the diff between spanish and italian, and I dont know what it is exactly, but i dont like spanish.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/02/the-exchange-tom-mueller.html

I think my opinion w/r/t highest quality olive oil has a lot of overlap w/ my opinion w/r/t high end wine

During the reporting for the story, I immersed myself in the subject, discovering a historic, cultural, religious, anthropological, and—yes—criminal depth to olive oil that seemed to deserve fuller treatment in a book.

how much olive oil could the average person read?

the nearby farmers market sells this Ybarra olive oil for $4 a bottle and it's rocking my world right now

http://todarobros.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/o/i/oil0094.jpg

the nearby farmers market

YDFM? I'm swinging through Atlanta on the way home after Big Ears -- will make a note to get a bottle.