Article: Luminescent, green, fresh olive oil

Beth Elon
Jerusalem Post
11-30-2001
Headline: Luminescent, green, fresh olive oil
Byline: Beth Elon
Edition; Magazine
Section: Features
Page: 27

Friday, November 30, 2001 -- In late November it seems like almost everyone in Tuscany is busy making olive oil. The green and orange nets are draped like a tulle gown across the landscaped terraces under the graceful gray-green trees. On sunny mornings farmers, their relatives and other helpers gather to knock down the fruit, climbing up into the trees to bat down every last little olive.

The men go up into the trees, the women gather whatever falls outside the nets along the ground. The olives are poured into large burlap sacks or dumped into open ...

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