Criminal Networks Control The Industry More Than You Think The Italian mafia's Piromalli clan has been accused of labeling ...

Chicago (CBS) -- Be careful if you plan on cooking up a tasty pasta dish this week, because there's an olive oil shortage halfway around the world. Quartino Restaurant cooks up close to 10,000 meals a ...

MILAN — One-third of Italians have reduced their consumption of extra virgin olive oil, a mainstay of the Mediterranean diet, due to skyrocketing prices, according to a survey released Friday. But ...

Last year's harvest fell to a 25-year low in Italy. Rome -- Italy's production of olive oil fell to a 25-year low of 185,000 tons last year -- a more than 57 percent drop in quantity from the ...

Everyone knows that there is no such thing as Italian food; instead we speak of the cuisine of a specific region, such as Piedmont, Tuscany, Sicily, Veneto and every one of the other regions of the ...

Many associate the best olive oil with European Mediterranean countries, but there are regions that produce equally great oil ...

Italian farmers are facing ruin as a plague of “olive tree leprosy” devastates orchards across southern Europe. The Xylella bacteria has hit particularly hard in the country’s Puglia region along its ...

If you’re a lover of Italian wines - and who isn’t - it’s virtually a sure thing you also like Italian extra virgin olive oil (EVOO), especially if you get the opportunity to try one of these oils ...