Your favorite olive oil?
One of the things I've been tasting around for is a great extra virgin olive oil...it's one of those items it's worth spending some money on! What oil do you get, and where do you get it?
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11 Comments:
One of my favorite olive oils is from O& Co., a division of L'occitane. I love the extra virgin olive oil with lemon. I also like the basil one. I also use Monini fruttato , which you can get in specialty stores. This oil was recommended to me by Giuliano Hazan, in a class I took. He is the son of Marcella.
Mich23 at 10:22AM on 08/22/07
Kirkland EVOO
dksbook at 12:00PM on 08/22/07
I loath olives. But I do end of cooking with olive oil on a frequent basis. But I stick to virgin because the taste of the olives doesn't come through as strongly.
shea at 12:43PM on 08/22/07
I use Santini's olive oil from Trader Joe's. It's fairly cheap, but it's a good all-around olive oil that I use for cooking as well as for salad dressing and dips.
Marvin at 2:06PM on 08/22/07
I too purchase olive oil from Trader Joe's. I've tried a variety. I'm not an expert on olive oil, but I haven't been disappointed in TJ's offerings.
In an aside, did anybody catch the recent article in The New Yorker regarding the corruption of the olive oil industry? Illuminating but disturbing. Basically, there is a lot of non-olive oil being passed as olive oil floating around, as well as extra virgin which isn't truly extra virgin.
Kelly Spitzer at 2:17PM on 08/22/07
I use Bertolli olive oil to cook with but normally use a high end product to finish or to make dressings. Currently I'm using a spanish extra virgin called Sarica. After I finish this bottle I believe I might try one from California.
Colorado Jim at 2:39PM on 08/22/07
My house EVOO is Carbonell from Spain. It's a very green olive oil and is quite spicy for a supermarket brand. My finishing oil is (currently) Castillo de Canena from the aforementioned O&Co. It is very smooth with a peppery finish. If you get a chance, visit one of their stores to do an olive oil tasting -- it's really fun and educational.
Dominic
the zen kitchen
dvchurch at 7:54PM on 08/22/07
'illiada' is a greek olive oil from 100% KALAMATA. avail. regular or organic from chef's warehouse. another great organic oil is 'da morgada' from portugal. it varies from harvest to harvest (2006 a bit of a letdown) and may be difficult to find retail.
regarding sarica, they are an import comp. out of chicago and have many different typeas avail. you may be able to find various different bottles at Cafe Iberico (a Chicago tapas institution) their packaging can be quite stunning.
i would also like to encourage evryone to search out oils from lesser known regions, some fine oils are coming out of Argentina, Australia, and of course California.
coolname at 11:40PM on 08/22/07
I use Roland olive oils, mostly because that is what I have access to. I'll cook with most any virgin oil and save the good stuff for dishes where the oil flavor is more prominent. Roland, too, has a Kalamata as well as a Tuscan that are really nice. It's so interesting to taste the varying degrees of fruity and spicy in olive oil. I think it should be in most Italian groceries.
Littlebluesiren at 12:13AM on 08/23/07
Favorites? Titone or Castello di Poppiano Laudemio from Olio2go (www.olio2go.com) where there are many, many to chose from.
At the beach house, I'll go with Lucini, if I need an olive oil from the grocery stores. At Trader Joe's I'll go with his Sicilian oil.
Definitely partial to Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
SigLucy at 9:23AM on 08/24/07
My favorite evoo is Poggio Cappiano
Poggio Cappiano at www.niccolisdeli.com, www.olio2go.com
redjoe at 1:38PM on 10/15/07