Article: The Main Ingredient: Olive oil is at its finest when it's extra-virgin

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OVER the years, in our devotion to Mediterranean food, we have devoured enough extra-virgin olive oil to float a tanker. We've tasted olive oil from a friend's family farm in Crete. We've carted home tiny bottles from specialty shops in America and Italy. We even vacationed once on a Tuscan olive oil grove, where the precious gold liquid was pressed once a year and hoarded in a vault under the house. We've guzzled gallons of every supermarket extra-virgin there is.

Finally, after much research, we feel confident in saying that the absolute best extra-virgin olive oil in the world is ... whichever one you like.

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