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We talked a bit about olive trees in a previous blott: https://www.wlbott.com/?p=25662
For The New Crescent, the communities will decide how to use their irrigated crop land. But the economic realities of irrigating the soil with desalinated water will encourage the planting of high value crops or orchards.
Olives are one of those rare foods that straddle the line between snack, ingredient, and ancient cultural symbol. They’re salty little time travelers—domesticated at least 6,000–7,000 years ago in the Eastern Mediterranean, worshiped by the Greeks, fought over by empires, and now stuffed with pimentos, jalapenos, anchovies,… in your local grocery store.
Check out these varieties (and there’s many more) from The Olive Pit.
The Olive Pit (Corning, Ca.) has a pretty cool web site that allows you to walk around the store.
For reference purposes, I have tried the following forms of olive stuffige:
- anchovy
- blue cheese
- jalapeno
- pimento
on order: Jalapeno Garlic
Olive Oil – A Thread Through History
Jack Handey, known for his “Deep Thoughts,” offers this thought related to Popeye:
“I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye”.
Art history can be viewed through the lens of the Ancient Greek Goddess of Olives. She has been depicted in marble statues and in paintings through the middle ages, the Renaissance, all the way to our present culture.
The communities of The New Crescent may wish to honor the mythical Goddess of Olive Oil.
