Understanding Olive Oil
Tue Sep 10, 7:00 PM - Tue Sep 10, 7:00 PM

This course you can learn about olive oil as a category of food product. What Extra Virgin Olive Oil is – E.V.O.O.? What impacts the quality of an EVOO (climate, soil, plagues, harvest, production)? Oil classification. How to assess oil quality by tasting. Describing an EVOO: positive and negative attributes. Styles of olive oils. What to look at when buying a bottle of Extra Virgin Olive Oil. How to preserve an oil’s quality: at home or business. Olive oil and health, the Mediterranean diet. EVOO tasting and food pairing. We will taste a number of oils and learn how to describe and pair them.