Mediterranean cuisine

Producer prices of olive oil in Greece have fallen recently, while the harvest of the new crop has not yet been completed.

Specifically, prices are as follows:

– Laconia: From 6.50 euros on Friday to 6.30 euros on Saturday.
– Crete: From 7.50 euros 10 days ago, to 5 euros on Sunday.
– Messinia: From 6.80 euros last week, to 6 euros at the weekend.

The Trade Ministry has declared that gram weight information should be embedded in the tariff and pricing lists for hamburger, döner and İskender kebab in a bid to deliver customers comprehensive and explicit information.

A classic, beloved octopus dish to connect us to our culinary roots.

Ingredients:

Olive harvest is taking place all over the country. Many olive groves are already harvested, especially in the warmer southern and western regions, while others still wait for the right time to pick the precious fruit, full of flavor and sublime oil. The olive diversity in Türkiye is very rich, so it is a good time to look at our wide range of olive varieties.

Almost 28,000 bottles of counterfeit olive oil labeled misleadingly have been removed from the Bulgarian market. The product in question is "Mediterranean Blend of Italian Sunflower Oil & Extra Virgin Olive Oil (20%)," which comes in 1-liter containers.

Last week, I was at the Olive Oil Tasting Festival in Edremit, where we sampled various olive oils and even tried goat milk olive oil ice cream made by the Italian "ice cream philosopher," Marco Radicioni. Marco is a hero who is carrying gastronomy forward.

Türkiye is expected to see a record yield of table olives this year, with production estimated at 750,000 tons, despite challenges posed by the climate crisis.

Mustafa Tan, head of the National Olive and Olive Oil Council, stated that alongside the 750,000 tons of table olives, the country expects to produce 475,000 tons of olive oil for the 2024-2025 season.

On a Monday morning, farmer Spyros Staramos was outside his oil mill in Aitoliko, a town in Western Greece. It would have been just another typical Monday for him if he hadn't seen that the two locks on his warehouse had been broken. "At first I found a cart on the doorstep that we usually have inside the warehouse, but I thought I had left it outside and forgotten.

Ingredients

For the Lasagna

• 300g type “00” flour
• 2 small eggs
• 80ml water
• 1 tsp salt
• All-purpose flour for rolling out the dough

For the Octopus Ragout

The Municipality of Thessaloniki has begun harvesting olives from the olive trees spread throughout the city in order to produce, for the first time, its own municipal organic olive oil.