The world produces up to 3 million tons of olive oil per year. Leading the market are Mediterranean countries like Spain, Italy, Greece, and Tunisia. Olives have hundreds of varieties, called ...

Plus to learn how this liquid gold, "first cold press virgin oil" is made from start to finish. Olive oil is a type of vegetable oil that is extracted from olives, the fruit of the olive tree.

An curved arrow pointing right. The Messinia in the Peloponnese, Greece, produces what is considered the finest olive oil in the world. It's made from the Koroneiki olive, a small but rich and ...

The lack of water made the skins thicker and the olives harder to eat, and much of the crop from those years was used for oil. “We had to buy extra water,” Ms. Graber said. “We had to pay ...