Posted on March 1, 2010.
Spanish olive oil was considered the best at the time of the Roman Empire, is it always so, and why was it? considered finer than oil from other areas of the Mediterranean?
Good olive oil, it is not cheap, it does not matter if he is Italian, Spanish or Greek. Of course, people prefer oil Italian Italian, Greek people, of course, as Oil of Greek and even for Spaniards. We are accustomed to our oil is normal.
I'm Spanish, I can tell you that you can find the oil very bad Spanish, but you can find an excellent olive oil, I will not say it's the best because it depends preferences.
Ignore the guy with the Ceaser salad on his head, pretending he knows nothing about Italy or History.
In fact ..... many countries the quality of products of olive oil, and many countries, including Italy, to produce pedestrians, sweetened junk.
Everything is in the process, and you must be honest, people who know what they are making oil, or are not.
Naturally, the Italians say they are the best of everyone ........
and I'm sure the Greeks and Spaniards have much to say about it.
Everything is a matter of taste, and what you use for, and what you think "taste better".
They made this very kind of thing is sometimes it means imported taste "different" than what you use to ........ .......... Then locally, which can be taken two ways. .......... can be marketed as being "far superior" to the local controls or'.......... people can boast that their own is better.
"Spanish" olive oil, probably sounded exotic in Roman times ......
Oil return court, was not able to pedestrians .----- EMPOROR'S. ..... And this kind of thing.
Like today ...... all in the packaging and marketing.
It's the same thing, more or less ... Olive Oil ... but may have come in a pretty package.
I think you're joking and misinformed. I also think you are a Spanish jealous ... jealous because the oil most beautiful and most expensive olive from Tuscany in Italy .. it is well known.
In addition, Spain for much of the Roman period was a sworn enemy and in the hands of North Africans. So I doubt any import of olive oil would also have occurred because Italy has a lot of olives in production of much higher quality of oil close to the Rome area as wel ... it makes no sense at all.
ps Spanish olive oil is very cheap and low quality ... you can buy it in gallon here and it costs almost nothing ... I would say that it considers the worst Greek olive oil ....
As an American restaurant owner, I must say that I have my provider offering "the best" Spanish olive oil each week for a "good price". But I just tried to change the Italian form of Spanish and I started to get complaints and the Chief was not happy ... said he removed the taste of the food he had prepared what discredits him.
That's why I only buy Italian olive oil. People in the food indistry know it is far superior to the Spanish or Greek ... So why it is so expensive and demand. I think the Tuscan olive oil is exhausted and has booked years in advance ... So why I can only see the Umbria ... always good all the things Spanish.
By the way .... McWeasel as a fellow American, you embarrassing. Please be quiet.
haha you joking ....
Now we've actually got a lot of areas that produce olive oil great if the only reason that perhaps some could import the Spanish version should be because it's much cheaper .... the finest olive oil is in the central part of southern Italy. .. there is no need to import cheap shit from anyone anywhere, except in matters of price ... but you know that you pay for quality ... yomomy not.