Ten reasons why you should buy the BEST quality olive oil you can find:
1. The obvious: it tastes better. Good olive oil is complex – peppery, lemony, grassy – with the good stuff you can and should lick the drips that fall down the side of the bottle.
2. Supporting independents and local produce: if it’s good, it’s probably local and fresh. Olive oil is best fresh. Always try to source stuff from near you. You’ll be surprised at the depth and variation found in the different varieties and brands of olive oils. Like with coffee and wine, you can become a connoisseur.
3. Potatoes: new potatoes mixed with fresh herbs and sea salt and drizzled with really good olive oil are heaven. Roast or boil them, it doesn’t matter.
4. Bread: fresh bread dipped in beautiful olive oil.
5. Salads: if you have a lemon and you have some good quality olive oil, you have a salad dressing. Mix one part lemon juice with two parts olive oil and salt and pepper and you’re done.
6. Pasta: drizzle some olive oil through your pasta just before serving, no matter the sauce. Like lemon juice, olive oil can lift any dish.
7. Open sandwich: finish off your fresh sandwich with a drizzle of olive oil – go on, try it. It’s delicious.
8. Good skin: check out the oldies from the Mediterranean. They look pretty good. And guess what? A diet high in olive oil. I’m putting two and two together so you should too.
9. Health benefits – olive oil is high in monosaturated fats, which are rumoured to reduce the risk of heart disease.
10. Because life is too short not too.
You’ve hit the nail on the head here Hungry. However you could, for the final one in the coffin have mentioned it was Vito Corleone’s front in the Godfather, nothing like a fat Brando reference when talking fine foods.
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