Olives

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Parents who try to inculcate in their children a taste for what we have come to consider to be “adult” flavors—olives, salad, cabbage, lamb and suchlike—may have their successes, but overall American kiddie-food culture is devoted to the bland, the synthetic and the factory-made.

From The Wall Street Journal

Before you drain, save the pasta water — that cloudy starch is what turns chopped olives and warm oil into a sauce that clings instead of puddles.

From Salon

Now make the briny engine: chop green olives very finely, almost relish-like, and do the same with artichoke hearts: small, but not paste.

From Salon

Chickpeas with bell pepper, feta and olives.

From Salon

As the broader French wine sector undergoes a crisis, with some producers ripping up vines to plant olives or abricots, French Bloom and other non-alcoholic winemakers are booming.

From Barron's