Also, why some olives are green, some black, and some purple ... but only one is red. AnnaPustynnikova / GETTY IMAGES If you want to infuse your food with a taste of the Mediterranean, reach for ...

Lookout food & drink correspondent Lily Belli highlights top events happening around Santa Cruz County this weekend and into ...

A close-up of canned pitted black olives - The Image Party/Shutterstock These days, many Americans are first exposed to olives in canned form -- more specifically, those pitted black olives you might ...

Hun Guey restaurant at 301 North Garfield Avenue in Monterey Park. He recommends the 'Crossing Bridge Rice Noodle Soup,' which is a bowl of noodles with boiling chicken broth, presented with it is a ...

Many people don't know that salty, chewy olives are actually a fruit. Their long, fascinating history and wildly varied forms make them a great ingredient in the kitchen and a rich source of ...

Don Landis will talk about the history of the olive and describe how to make olives edible without lye at a workshop on Jan. 20 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Cline Cellars, 24737 Arnold Drive, Sonoma. The ...

I've always gravitated toward black olives; I think my first experience was when I had them on my favorite Subway sandwich and they were delightful. Green olives, for whatever reason, were the bane of ...

At a crowded neighborhood meeting at Graber Olive House in June, the plan sounded ideal. Graber, a nationally known business that had cured and canned olives in Ontario since 1894, but which had gone ...