Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil. " [Mueller reveals] the. Tom Mueller's obsession is olive oil. After finishing 'Extra Viriginity,' I can see why. Mueller describes the journey olive oil takes, both through human history and from the grove to the bottle to the table. Unfortunately, the olive oil industry is rife with fraud and misleading packaging, make true extra virgin oil hard to come by. A superbly crafted combination of cultural history and food manifesto, Extra Virginity takes us on a journey through the world of olive oil, opening our eyes to olive oil’s rich past as well as to the fierce contemporary struggle between oil fraudsters of the globalized food industry and artisan producers whose oil truly deserves the name "extra virgin.".
By Caroline J. Beck Novem Tom Mueller is probably best known for his undercover work that cracked the practice of importing fraudulently-labeled olive oil wide open with the publication of his article entitled Slippery Business in The New Yorker in Today, this exposé is still talked about as the quintessential story of an unethical business practice that, while widely. Extra Virginity: The Sublime And Scandalous World Of Olive Oil|Tom Mueller, Breaking Free: A Novel|Lauraine Snelling, A charge and sermon together with an introductory discourse and confession of faith delivered at the ordination of Mr. Christopher Hall. At the Yard, Petticoat-Lane, October 3, |See Notes Multiple Contributors, An Alien's Project: Jason's Wonderful World|Jason Yiu. --Frederick Kaufman, City University of New York Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil Tom Mueller New York: W.W. Norton and Company, pp. Illustrations. $ (cloth) ``Olive oil is a fresh-pressed fruit juice,'' Tom Mueller states early on in his book. To think of olive oil in this way is a revelation.
A superbly crafted combination of cultural history and food manifesto, Extra Virginity takes us on a journey through the world of olive oil, opening our eyes to olive oil’s rich past as well as to. The best oils are made by authentic artist-craftsmen, who marry centuries-old agricultural wisdom with cutting-edge extraction technology, and now produce the finest oils in history. However, these producers are being steadily driven from the market: extra-virgin olive oil is difficult and expensive to make, yet alarmingly easy to adulterate. A superbly crafted combination of cultural history and food manifesto, Extra Virginity takes us on a journey through the world of olive oil, opening our eyes to olive oil’s rich past as well as to the fierce contemporary struggle between oil fraudsters of the globalized food industry and artisan producers whose oil truly deserves the name "extra virgin.".
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