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Comment on Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil (2012)parent

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Supermarket olive oil of any price is only suitable for frying

Yeah, yeah.

and both the [eminent] foodies gave a thumbs-up to Unilever's much-derided Bertolli brand.

Same as with wine. It's just a fruit and the variations from its production simply aren't as great as people like to think. Anyway, the best fat comes from bacon.

I'm just saying how we do it in my oil producing town. The oil you get from your production or from a town producer in the local mill is for salads, toasts, etc. Oil bought in packs of 3-5l in the supermarket (extra-virgin brands) is what we use for frying.

It is so much like that, that now that I live abroad I'm flying with 8l packs of my town's oil at least twice a year.

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