Olive oil, liquid gold in the kitchen

Mainly of culinary use "liquid gold" is the popular name for olive oil because of its many virtues.
It is extracted from the freshly picked olive and the world's largest manufacturers are in the vicinity of the Mediterranean, beeing Spain the world's largest producer.It has also been used for medicinal purposes, religious, and as well as fuel for lamps. In ancient Greece, athletes were anointed with it before competition. The first references to the olive tree are found in the Upper Paleolithic (12,000 years BC), and its cultivation began in ancient Egypt by 2000 BC).
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