{"id":1196,"date":"2012-04-05T14:21:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T14:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.oliodiolivacordioli.com\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2025-05-14T08:27:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T08:27:20","slug":"bbc-december-9-2012-a-day-in-the-life-of-an-olive-oil-virgin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oliodiolivacordioli.com\/en\/bbc-december-9-2012-a-day-in-the-life-of-an-olive-oil-virgin\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC &#8211; December 9, 2012: A Day in the Life of an Olive Oil Virgin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">No olive oil you can buy will ever be as good as one you produce yourself.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Until this autumn, I was an olive oil virgin. I had had the posh stuff on salads and bruschettas, I had even spent a Christmas holiday selling it at a deli. But I had no real idea what authentic extra-virgin olive oil was for one simple reason &#8211; I had never made it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now I have. I had one of the most uplifting days of my life, taking fresh juicy olives from tree to bottle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">My American friend Ceil invited me to help harvest. 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