Article: Selecting an olive oil is a taste experience

Olive oil -- that gold- to green-tinged liquid that makes field greens, fresh marinara and grilled fish sing -- can pose slippery questions to shoppers.

What are the grades of olive oil? How do you use olive oil? How do you choose from, for example, the dizzying array you find in almost every supermarket.

Brands range from the cheapest, most popular Fillipe Berio extra-virgin at 28 cents an ounce, to domestic Jacques Pepin three peppercorn-flavored olive oil at $1.49 an ounce, according to spokeswoman Shirley Kuma of Foodland, whose Beretania store houses 46 kinds. Among them is the Italian-imported Badia A Coltibuono extra virgin is $1.33 an ounce ($22.49 for a 16.9-ounce bottle) in the ...

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