12/10/2013
Forget art and culture, democracy and philosophy, the Olympic games and the theatre- the most precious Greek gift to the world is it's olive oil. Although other countriesproduce more commercial quantities, over 75% of Greek olive oil is the superior extra virgin oil with half of that exported all over the world.
On Greek olives- "...older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water..." Lawrence Durrell