Olive Oil

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2013

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week it's a look at the sometimes scandalous world of olive oil with Tom Mueller author of Extra Virginity. Legendary vegetarian cook Anna Thomas brings us her take on steaming bowls of green soup for the winter months. Her book is Love Soup. We talk with Christian DeBenedetti about his book The Great American Ale Trail, and play another round of Stump the Cook with Modern Family's Ty Burrell.

Broadcast dates for this episode:

January 7, 2012 (originally aired)
January 12, 2013 (rebroadcast)

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0:00.0	Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Ana Gonzalez, through this complicated country.
0:08.1	We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.
0:24.4	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
0:32.3	It's the Splendid Table from APM American Public Media.
0:44.8	Thank you. table from APM American Public Media. I'm Lynne Rosett O'Castor Casper, and today we're talking extra virgin olive oil and
0:49.5	controversy.
0:51.0	Extra virgin olive oil is the purest of olive oils and the finest tasting.
0:55.7	But if those words are on the label, are they a guarantee of what's in the bottle?
1:00.5	And if it's from a farm in Tuscany, is it the real thing?
1:04.0	And how can one bottle of extra virgin olive oil cost $10 and another bottle costs $70.
1:11.6	Well, much is going to be revealed when we talk with investigative journalist Tom Mueller,
1:16.6	author of Extra Virginity.
1:18.7	Stay with us for this and much more, this hour on the splendid table. This is the Splendiddle.
1:36.3	This is the splendid table from APM American Public Media,
1:41.0	a show for people who love to eat.
1:45.3	I'm Lynne Rosetto, Casper.
1:59.7	We buy romance when we buy extra virgin olive oil. Artisans working old olive mills, pressing fresh-picked fruit, that first flow of bright green oil.
2:04.4	And that'll be $70 a bottle.
2:07.4	Olive oil is a global business.
2:09.3	There's lots of money to be made, but there are also many questions left unanswered.
2:14.6	Well, journalist Tom Mueller has written Extra Virginity, the sublime and scandalous world of olive oil.
2:21.4	Tom, welcome. It's great to be here. Thank you.
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