I love olives!

I really do. Some people just look at me weird, especially if they don't like olives themselves, but for me olives are the best food in the world. I'm literally like Pavlov's dog, only for olives.

So I decided to start a blog about olives. I haven't yet managed to find lots of information about olives on the net. Some info about curing olives mostly, but nothing much else. I hope to contribute something to other olive lovers around the world, especially in places where olives are not so popular, or are not really grown.

I come from the little island of Malta, in the Mediterranean. Olives used to be an important par tof the economy, or so it seems, due to the fact that a many Maltese placenames are related to olives or olive oil. However, while today olives are still an intrinsic part of the Maltese diet, they are grown less frequently for picking ( we do have a lot of 'wild' olive trees which make decent olives though). A family friend ( a dentist) has a small grove of olives and presses his own olive oil. It's beautiful golden-green murky stuff that tastes of green fresh olives. Beautiful! You can almost drink the stuff.

I've recently moved to sweden, where olives are expensive. OR at least, real olives are. You can buy canned olives which are complete rubbish. They're only good for throwing away or for torturing somebody's tastebuds. So I don't buy any because they are so expensive and I'm kind of broke at the moment!

Well well, this was my first post, something about myself, and soon you will start finding frequent posts about olives! So stay tuned!