Green Gold: Our Love Affair With Olive Oil (encore)

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Arts, History, Food

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Olive oil is not what you think it is. According to Tom Mueller, author of Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil, an olive is a stone fruit like a plum or cherry—meaning that the green-gold liquid we extract from it "is, quite literally, fruit juice." And, while we're blowing your minds, have you ever stopped to wonder what "extra virgin" means? "It's like extra dead or semi-pregnant," Mueller said. "I mean, it doesn't make any sense at all." This episode we visit two groves—one in the Old World, one in the New—to get to the bottom of olive oil's many mysteries. Listen in this episode as we find out why the ancient Romans rubbed it all over their bodies, and whether the olive oil on our kitchen counters really is what it says on the label. (Encore presentation) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, Gastropod listeners.
0:03.4	We have a special episode for you.
0:05.5	It's an encore presentation of one of our favorites.
0:07.9	I mean, of course, they're all our favorites.
0:09.7	Choosing between children.
0:11.1	But this one is about something Nikki and I consume literally every day, and that's olive
0:16.0	oil.
0:17.0	We get into how to taste it, how to harvest it, but more importantly, how to make sure
0:21.7	you're not being ripped off, and that the extra virgin olive oil you're selling out
0:25.4	the big bucks for is the real deal.
0:28.1	This is life-changing advice, honestly, because the difference between real and fake is pretty
0:32.3	intense, and the fake stuff is everywhere.
0:35.3	Listen, enjoy, and pour some olive oil all over your food.
0:38.8	Heck, slather it all over your body if you're Cynthia.
0:41.7	True.
0:42.7	And we'll be back in two weeks with a brand new episode.
0:44.9	Oh wow.
0:45.9	Let me know if I'm like hurting the tree or it's really fun.
0:54.9	There we go.
0:55.9	Yeah.
0:56.9	It's very gratifying.
0:57.9	Like, olives just go flying off in all directions that you're at your whim.
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