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Article: Virtuosity: Extra virgin olive oil is divine
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- Better Nutrition
- Article date:
- February 1, 2003
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The volcanic soil turns our shoes sienna red as we walk up the hillside of Antonio Marulli's olive grove in Francolise, Italy. The trees, heavy with fruit, grid the property and are the only monuments he has to his past. Although bombs destroyed his family home when the Allies advanced during World War II, the trees and the family's deeply rooted tradition of olive oil making have survived.
Marulli is just one of thousands of olive oil producers in southern Italy, but it's his attention to quality and detail that sets him apart from others in the Campania region, northwest of Naples. Marulli uses eco-friendly growing methods and drip irrigation to keep soil erosion down. Most farmers in ...