Handmade pasta “olivetree leaf”

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• Mediterranean diet

  The Mediterranean diet is a modern nutritional model originally inspired by the traditional dietary patterns of some of the countries of the Mediterranean Basin. The diet is often cited as beneficial for being low in saturated fat and high in   [...]

• Olive oil extraction, the traditional method: olive press

  Olive oil extraction is the process of extracting the oil present in the olive drupes for food use. People have used olive presses since Greeks first began pressing olives over 5000 years ago.   [...]