Extra Virginity

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ISBN: 9781848870062

The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil

Tom Mueller

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English

Atlantic Books
29 January 2013

Society & Social Sciences; Agriculture & related industries; Food manufacturing & related industries; Cookery by ingredient

The best oils are made by authentic artist-craftsmen, who marry centuries-old agricultural wisdom with cutting-edge extraction technology, and now produce the finest oils in history. However, these producers are being steadily driven from the market: extra-virgin olive oil is difficult and expensive to make, yet alarmingly easy to adulterate. Skilled oil criminals are flooding the market with low-cost, faux extra-virgins, reaping rich profits and undercutting honest producers, whilst authorities in Italy, the US and elsewhere turn a blind eye.

From the feisty pugliese woman of sixty struggling to keep the family business afloat to her industrialist neighbour who has allegedly grown wealthy on counterfeit oil, to Benedictine monks in Western Australia and poker-playing agriculture barons in northern California who make this ancient foodstuff in New World ways, Mueller distils the passions and life stories of oil producers, and explores the conflict, culinary vitality and cultural importance of great olive oil.

By: Tom Mueller
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 199mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 270g
ISBN: 9781848870062
ISBN 10: 184887006X
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 29 January 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tom Mueller lives in Liguria, Italy, with his wife and three children. Educated at Oxford and Harvard, he is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, and also writes for National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic Monthly.

Reviews for Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil

Tom Mueller is, in turn, chemist, explorer, scholar and bard, infusing the narrative with a sense of wonder * Times Literary Supplement * An eye-opening and brilliantly researched expose of the olive oil industry * Sunday Times * This fascinating investigation shows there's no trade more slippery than olive oil * Guardian *