You will be amazed by what you can do with olive oil. The writer draws on her experiences growing up in an Italian family and shares with us all of the incredible ways her mother and grandmother used olive oil. After reading this you will understand why olive oil has been so vital to so many cultures for thousands of years.

This second edition contains new and expanded information on pollination, pruning for shaker and vertical rotating comb harvest, mechanical pruning, deficit irrigation, mechanical harvesting methods including trunk-shaking and canopy contact harvesters, postharvest handling and processing methods, and olive oil production. Also includes information on new pests including olive fly, oleander scale, olive mite, and black vine weevil.

This manual provides detailed information for growers on production issues, plant nutrition,economics, pest and weed control, management of olive wastes, the conversion process, and organic certification and registration.

This is a good read, which gives a historical overview of olive cultivation, recipes from those regions around the world where olives are cultivated and nonfood uses for olive oil. The book is what the title conveys: the essential olive oil companion.