For millennia fresh olive oil has been one of life's necessities-not just as food but also as
medicine a beauty aid and a vital element of religious rituals. But this symbol of purity has
become deeply corrupt. A superbly crafted combination of cultural history and food manifesto
Extra Virginity takes us on a journey through the world of olive oil opening our eyes to olive
oil's rich past as well as to the fierce contemporary struggle between oil fraudsters of the
globalized food industry and artisan producers whose oil truly deserves the name extra virgin.
