Guest guest Posted December 15, 2007 Report Share Posted December 15, 2007 Dear Ciel, It is very hard for me to recommend good olive oil brands. It also depends on where you live. I live in Belgium but have a home in Turkey and France where we get excellent olive oil. Here in Belgium you can get really good olive oil in the health shops as well as normal supermarkets and it has never bee a question of not coming up to scratch. These things are pretty well regulated here. As for Turkish brands my favourite is Marmara Birlik and Taris but I don't know if you can get them there. Taris also makes skin products from from their olive oil which has helped me a lot with my skin problems. They are pure and contain only with natural oils. (I hope this does not construe advertising). Another oil I very much like is the one from Pain Quotidien which comes from Tunisia. It is strictly controlled and only sold in their own place. I know they have one in New York. The world of olive oil is so vast and different oils are used for different purposes. A whole cuisine has been built up on cooking vegetables with olive oil called " meze " to be found from Greece to Lebanon and consumed particularly in summer. Even a sinle separate dish can be cooked with a certain olive oil. I myself have at least 10 different brands in the house at any one time depending on what I am cooking or if I make meze or use it for salads. Sorry if this seems even more confusing. I am sorry that I don't know too much about olive oil in the States, if as I suspect you come from there. regards, Perihan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 15, 2007 Report Share Posted December 15, 2007 I use various types of Bertolli. It is consistently fresh and it always tastes good. I usually regret buying other brands. > > >Dear Ciel, > > > >It is very hard for me to recommend good olive oil brands. It also depends > >on where you live. > >I live in Belgium but have a home in Turkey and France where we get > >excellent olive oil. Here > >in Belgium you can get really good olive oil in the health shops as well > >as normal supermarkets > >and it has never bee a question of not coming up to scratch. These things > >are pretty well > >regulated here. As for Turkish brands my favourite is Marmara Birlik and > >Taris but I don't know > >if you can get them there. Taris also makes skin products from from their > >olive oil which > >has helped me a lot with my skin problems. They are pure and contain only > >with natural oils. > >Perihan > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 18, 2007 Report Share Posted December 18, 2007 > > I use various types of Bertolli. It is consistently fresh and it > always tastes good. I usually regret buying other brands. > > Hi , > > I'm surprised to hear that you use Bertolli olive oil with no problems, because, it gives me a lot of problems each time I use it. This proves that what works for one person doesn't work for the other. Very interesting. > > Maddalena ==>I would question Bertolli products. They only have one that is in a dark bottle, which is organic extra virgin olive oil but it states they use " traditional filtering methods " (whatever that means), and it doesn't state that it is expeller or cold pressed so I wouldn't use it. Bee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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