The benefit of having immigrant parents is that you always have someplace to travel to with free room and board. The benefit of having a Greek father is that the room and board is in a country where ...

SIMIZA, Greece — In the olive groves around Ancient Olympia, sanctuary of the Greek gods, the trees were once considered sacred, and in many ways they still are. Carefully pruned and pampered, they ...

Vasilis Dimas stunned his agricultural community near the ancient city of Corinth when he switched his organic olive groves to the more stringent, premium category of “biodynamic” four years ago.

Ah, Greek food. Honestly, I’d go back to Greece just for the food alone—it just might have the best cuisine on the planet.

Tapenade, a word we’ve seen on California restaurant menus and supermarket jars for more than two decades, is — or should be — an olive paste. It’s a signature dish of Provence, the olive-producing, ...

Kalamata olives are a widely recognized and much-loved type of Greek olive that grow on the Kalamon tree and hail from the Peloponnese region in southern Greece. (Note: no olives grown outside this ...

A Greek olive oil has won the top spot at the world's EVOO 2018 awards. It's the flavored organic olive oil Majestic blend evoo of the Sakellaropoulos organic olive groves that rated 1st in the world!

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Imagine: salads without Kalamata olives and bread without Greek olive oil. NPR's Wade Goodwyn talks with Costas Mastoras, owner of a Greek import store in New York, about how turmoil in Greece is ...

Kástra Elión is distilled from wheat and a mixture of olives hand-picked in Nafpaktos, Greece. By Florence Fabricant Kástra Elión, Greek olive vodka, makes for elegant sipping with a modicum of ...