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Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil

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“[Mueller reveals] the brazen fraud in the olive oil industry and [teaches] readers how to sniff out the good things.” ―Dwight Garner, New York Times

For millennia, fresh olive oil has been one of life’s necessities―not just as food but also as medicine, a beauty aid, and a very important element of religious rituals. But this symbol of purity has develop into deeply corrupt. A superbly crafted combination of cultural history and food manifesto, Extra Virginity takes us on a journey through the world of olive oil, opening our eyes to olive oil’s rich past in addition to to the fierce recent struggle between oil fraudsters of the globalized food industry and artisan producers whose oil actually deserves the name “extra virgin.”

8 pages of illustrations
Amazon Best Books of the Month, December 2011: E.V.O.O. just got a whole lot more complicated. Tom Mueller’s Extra Virginity is about as explosive as an expose can get, a minimum of if your subject is liquid fat. The road from tree to table, it turns out, is fraught with corruption, fraud, and laboratory interventions. Mueller shows how and why the trade in adulterated olive oil is about as profitable as the trade in some hard drugs, and with a lot less risk, too. There are equally entertaining detours into olive oil’s long history, the politics of regulation and enforcement, and even debates over one of the best ways to taste it (swirl, aerate, spit, or just swig?). All in all, it is a great read not just for foodies, but also for any person interested in the complexities of global trade and organized crime. –Darryl Campbell

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