Matt Preston rates 'the world's best restaurants' Sep 30, 2009
They start sweet, with sugar cane soaked in different Latin cocktails, tall sheets of gossamer-thin pineapple wafer studded with black olive, and "virtual" peanuts or olives, which look and taste like the real thing, but whose liquid centres explode when you bite into them, sending flavours splattering across your mouth ... After snacks such as black sesame crackers or candied black olives made using - shock, horror - real olives, the 11-course menu at Can Roca delivers the most compelling "lick... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Walk-on Wildenstein a coup Sep 19, 2009
MAN ON SHOWExpat Andy Valmorbida has gone from olives to oils and managed to re-create himself as a Hollywood ''it'' boy. Naturally he knows a thing or two about name dropping, it comes with the territory when you hang around the likes of Snoop Dog, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
A fork in the road Jul 23, 2009
The cafe also does its area producers proud, featuring wines, olives, oils, jams, eggs, herbs and biodynamically grown salad from the Southern Highlands. Thu-Sun 9am-4pm, Fri-Sat 6pm-late. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A mouthful of ashes Feb 18, 2009
" Kyneton Estate olive oil producer Sam Trovatello lost 2500 of his family's 8000 trees, a house and sheds. This year, though, he will still be able to produce enough oil to give some to his neighbour Pam Brajevic, owner of Barfold Olives. Or what is left of it. Her processing shed is now just burned twisted metal. Harvesters the same. Tractors the same. Thankfully the outside dunny was untouched. "It's. um. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Saturated fat Feb 10, 2009
Good' fats include omega-3 fatty acids, found particularly in oily fish such as herring, mackerel, sardines, tuna, salmon and swordfish; and omega-6 fats found in olives, nuts, seeds and seed oils, and many vegetables and grains. These help keep our arteries healthy and raise levels of beneficial HDL (high-density lipoprotein) cholesterol. (BBC News -- Health)
