In this conversation, we talk about Lincoln's family influences, inherent creativity within the Extra Virgin Olive Oil community, hard work and a Greek goddess.. If you want to know about Lincoln, then listen to our next episode of;

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As we continue our seasonal celebrations, Caroline uses extra virgin olive oil to enhance the flavour and texture of a prime rib roast.

Please note:

450 degrees Fahrenheit is 230 degrees Celsius

350 degrees Fahrenheit is 175 degrees Celsius

Caroline Robitaille: Biography

From playing in her Italian grandmother’s garden with full access to her restaurant, to becoming a trained Natural Chef, Caroline learned early the value of family, community and breaking bread together. And yes, always with Olive Oil present. When she was sixteen Caroline’s grandmother took her to meet family in Lucca, Italy. It was at that time she fell so deeply in love with her Italian heritage.

In this episode of It’s all about the oil, Olive we have a conversation with Elizabeth and Kasimir Berger, who have brought their combined experience and skill to develop a unique extra virgin olive oil business. Focusing on premium quality Italian extra virgin olive oil and using the internet they are providing an opportunity for consumers and producers develop a virtual relationship and purchase early harvest extra virgin olive oil.

Listen to the care and attention to their endeavours...

Website: www.frantoi.org.

Elizabeth and Kasimir Biography

Elizabeth Berger first came to Italy whilst reading History of Art and Architecture at University and benefited from a study year in Pisa.

After university, she began travelling widely working as a walking guide throughout Europe and in 2000 walked from Canterbury in the UK to Rome along the ancient Via Francigena. She returned to the UK in 2001 to begin her career and studies in Wine. She began working for a selection of important wine families from Italy including Marchesi Antinori, Agricola Masi, Tasca d’Almerita and Poggio Antico, before moving to become Marketing & Wine Director for Champagne Bollinger in 2005. During her years at Bollinger, Elizabeth studied her Master of Wine qualification obtaining 5 of the 7 exams before she moved to Italy in 2013 with her young family.

Based initially in Montalcino, Elizabeth set up a consultancy business that connects top wine families in Italy with importers globally. She brings investment to the country and spends her days communicating about fine Italian wine. www.elizabethberger.it 

Based in Siena since 2015, Elizabeth has also established a small Extra Virgin Olive Oil e-commerce start up, which she runs by candlelight with her husband, Kasimir.  They communicate about and sell the very best Extra Virgin Olive Oil from 10 regions in Italy, shipping directly from the Frantoi and working particularly with monocultivar oils and single grove selections. www.frantoi.org.

Kasimir is a commercial consultant for software start-ups by day, working on Frantoi with Elizabeth by night. Kasimir produces and maintains website, logistics, commercial & accounting activities and all the non-glamorous parts of our e-commerce. Kasimir was born in London from Middle-European parents, grew up in Rome as a child actor, worked as a journalist doing trade and investment reports around the developing world for several years until Kasimir met Elizabeth, which brought him back to London. There Kasimir worked in publishing first, then moving towards software start-ups, working on the commercial and growth side. With Elizabeth, he shares our passion for food, wine, extra virgin olive oil, travel and their children.

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Elizabeth and Kasimir

In this conversation we talk about early harvest extra virgin olive oil, working in Tuscany and some of the importance of E-Commerce to the producer.

If you want to know more about Elizabeth and Kasimir, listen to our next episode of it’s all about the Oil, Olive.

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Carina shares with us her warm Nordic Red Cabbage Slaw (with a choice of EVOO, depending on your taste).

Website: www.juicydrops.no

Carina Hultin Dahlmann is a health, food and lifestyle author from Oslo, Norway where she also runs her own company. Carina travels the country giving lectures and courses on juicing, natural nutrition, healthy cooking and now also extra virgin olive oil!

She is regularly featured and quoted in Norway’s top magazines and television shows, and is now working on spreading the word about EVOO and the Mediterranean diet combined with the Nordic cuisine.

As part of our seasonal celebration menu, with start with a scrumptious chocolate souffle in our conversation with Emily from her home in Canada

Emily Lycopolus is a recipe developer, the author of six olive oil-focused cookbooks, including ‘Recipes for Olive Oil and Vinegar Lovers, a collection of recipes from Syria, Italy, Spain and Greece., and Emily’s latest release is an updated version of ‘The Olive Oil and Vinegar Lovers Cookbook’https://www.touchwoodeditions.com/book/the-olive-oil-and-vinegar-lovers-cookbook-2/

Emily is a level two olive oil sommelier, the co-founder of eat creative eatcreative.ca, a food-driven creative content agency, and also the founder of The Olive Oil Critic (oliveoilcritic.com). 

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Margarida has a great passion for Nature! Since her childhood, Margarida was stimulated to look for natural solutions health problems. Due to the Portuguese countryside where she lives (and still does) resorting to nature and native flora were a constant source of inspirational remedies . ANÁHBIA (Margarida's company) emerged from the need to find in the market natural hygiene and cosmetic products, more simple and made of plants that we find in Alentejo’s countryside. The link among all products would be olive oil, our “liquid gold”, given its fantastic properties and its worldwide renowned quality. 

Margarida has a BSc’s degree in Food Engineering., and after concluding my degree, she did a training on phytotherapy, organic agriculture, essential oils, skin care therapy, and more recently cosmetics regulation.

The Agricultural Engineer Esteban Santipolio (MP12566 of the CPIA) is a graduate of FAUBA and has Postgraduate degrees in Agro business in FAUBA, Postgraduate in Rural Development Studies in CERUR Israel, Elaiotecnia Course in IFAPA Jaén-Spain, Postgraduate in the UN Litoral in Agroecology. Member of the CREA Olivícola San Juan from 1997 to 2016, member of the tasting panel of Olive Oil COI of the UCC since 2002, member of the Regional Council INTA Cuyo 2004/2008. International juror of Tasting in Argoliva (2010-2019), NYIOOC (2013-2019), Finoliva (2014 Brasil), New Zealand 2018 and Sudoliva (since 2017 Perú). As agricultural manager of the consultancy CIASA, developer of horticultural and olive projects for more than 10,000 hectares, nursery, agribusiness, packaging and marketing of olive in Argentina, Uruguay, Australia, Brazil and Turkey since 1992 to date. Currently advisor of an olive project of 1800 hectares in San Juan, Argentina. Advisor in Agroecological Oliviculture. Member of the Tutuna Family Project, agroecological varietal olive and natural olive-based cosmetics. 

Tammy is one of the futures of Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Tammy dedicates her time to understand and develop great skills and experience in our wonderful community.

Listen to her story here on It's all about the oil, Tammy.

Mustafa was born 53 years ago in a coastal small town in the North-Eastern Aegean, famous for their olive oils, historically supplying the palace of the Ottoman Sultan. Mustafa's grandfather was an immigrant from the island of Kos, who established an olive plantation and an olive press factory early in the 20th century there. Mustafa's father continued the business but then things changed, and he had to move his family to Istanbul. Mustafa was four then. His parent's sole focus was then, to give their kids the best education possible, which they did. Mustafa attended universities in Turkey and Canada and had a wonderful professional career now for 30 years, in blue chip global companies. Inspired by the mastery and perfection of whisky blending, When Mustafa was working as an expat in the spirits industry, he decided to replicate it for his personal passion, the olive oil industry. Hence, nine years ago, Mustafa established a plantation with local and immigrant olive types. Today, still working for one of the leading cosmetics companies in the world, managing their Turkish business, Mustafa manages his olive farm in the background, and perfecting the olive farm's processes in the meantime.

Website: https://www.bozelli.com.tr/