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Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
Tom Mueller
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Description for Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
paperback. Extra Virginity is a rich, fluid and evocative account of the history and alchemy of olive oil, and of how the finest artisanal oil-manufacturers - in the deep south of Italy, around the Mediterranean, in California, in the Antipodes and beyond - are endangered by the widespread fraud of one of mankind's oldest and most versatile products. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: KNAC; KNDF; WBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 274. The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil. 256 pages. Extra Virginity is a rich, fluid and evocative account of the history and alchemy of olive oil, and of how the finest artisanal oil-manufacturers - in the deep south of Italy, around the Mediterranean, in California, in the Antipodes and beyond - are endangered by the widespread fraud of one of mankind's oldest and most versatile products. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: KNAC; KNDF; WBT. Dimension: 199 x 131 x 26. Weight: 272.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848870062
SKU
V9781848870062
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About Tom Mueller
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
This fascinating investigation shows there's no trade more slippery than olive oil
Guardian
An eye-opening and brilliantly researched expose of the olive oil industry
Sunday Times
Tom Mueller is, in turn, chemist, explorer, scholar and bard, infusing the narrative with a sense of wonder
Times Literary Supplement
Guardian
An eye-opening and brilliantly researched expose of the olive oil industry
Sunday Times
Tom Mueller is, in turn, chemist, explorer, scholar and bard, infusing the narrative with a sense of wonder
Times Literary Supplement