olive oil

cooked with manna

The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a hand mill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into loaves. And it tasted like something made with olive oil.

first cold pressed

First cold pressed means “that the fruit of the olive was crushed exactly one time – i.e., the first press. The cold refers to the temperature range of the fruit at the time it is crushed”.

origin

Mediterranean Basin

path on GitHub

https://github.com/davepinch/pinchy.cc/blob/master/content/topics/words/o/olive-oil/olive-oil.md

random

And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. Mark 1:7 KJV

see also

avocado oil

tags

oil
food

virgin

The word “virgin” indicates that the olives have been pressed to extract the oil; no heat or chemicals have been used during the extraction process, and the oil is pure and unrefined.

Wikipedia

Olive oil (Wikipedia) Olive oil is a liquid fat obtained by pressing whole olives, the fruit of Olea europaea, a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin, and extracting the oil.