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Elia Quality Group Offers Introductory Olive Oil Evaluation Courses

2021-08-17 by Phil Butler

Elia Quality Group

Elia Quality Group offers a basic course in olive oil sensory evaluation. The course will focus on creating a deeper understanding of EVOO sensory analysis.

Tags: crete, Crete Greece, Crete olive oil, Elia Quality Group, EVOO, Irini Kokolaki, olive oil, olive oil analysis, olive oil tasting

Return to Margarites and Keramion On a Quest for Simple Perfection

2021-05-20 by Phil Butler

Giorgis Delamvelas

Our search for Minoan ceramic perfection takes us back to Margarites Village and the amazing workshop Keramion.

Tags: ceramics, crete, Crete olive oil, Crete pottery, Crete products, Galatas Palace, Giorgis Delamvelas, Keftiu, Keftiu Magazine, Keramion, Kostis Christakis, Margarites Village, Mariniki Delamvelas, Minnoan art, Minoan art, Minoan ceramics, Minoan pottery, pottery classes, pottery techniques

Crete: An Agricultural Half-Step From a Return to Greatness

2020-11-18 by Phil Butler

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Crete olive producers stand at the threshold of a new era of prosperity, if they could only grasp it.

Tags: Alexandra Manousakis, Crete olive oil, EVOO, Gaia Epicheirein, George Kondylis, Kavoussi-Azorias olive tree, Kriti, olive oil tradition, PDO Sitia Lasithiou Kriti, Stavros Arnaoutakis, Stelios Kanakis, Union of Agricultural Cooperatives of Sitia

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