Olive Oil in the Kitchen

The olive oil is over all used in cooking. Mainly the extra virgin is used to dress salads, to season the food, to preserve different food into pots, and to fry food. The olive oil is the only food derived from drupe, the fruit born from the transformation of the olive-tree flowers. The most ancient rests witness that the olive-tree came from the land between Syria and Palestine; then it spread all over the Mediterranean area. This cultivation reached Italy in 1000B.C. From fifty centuries on, up today, the olive oil is obtained only through the pressing of milled olives, dividing the oil from the vegetation water.