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Rude Food: Oil In Good Taste

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Feb 25, 2012 07:25 PM IST

When it’s olive oil, trust only your tongue. My olive oil epiphany occurred as late as last year. I’ve been an early champion of olive oil, have cooked with it for years, and thought I knew what I was talking about. Vir Sanghvi writes...

When it’s olive oil, trust only your tongue. If you like it, then that’s all that matters. But be warned, it destroys most Asian flavours.

My olive oil epiphany occurred as late as last year. I’ve been an early champion of olive oil, have cooked with it for years, and thought I knew what I was talking about.

Then, last year summer in Provence, a French olive oil producer came to the hotel where I was staying with several bottles of olive oil. He wanted to organise a tasting, he said. What followed was a revelation.

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It's a scam: Marketers and the big olive oil companies simply rebrand third rate oil as extra virgin
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Local Tastes: Italy consume six lakh tonnes of olive oil. It exports four lakh tonnes but produces only three lakh tonnes
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"What lies beneath: Cheap and nasty olive oils can be like painted whores. The good ones are like the women you fall in love with
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DIV class=photo_disc Body works: Body works: Over the last two decades, olive oil has gone from being a massage oil to being marketed as the one fat that is good for you
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Tongue twister: A good olive oil should taste wonderful. Its fat content should amplify the flavours of anything you put it on
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